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CD pleased to be of use to GB. He remembers his own work on orchids with pleasure. Thinks GB will be able to improve CD’s terminology for orchids.

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Asks CD to telegraph a testimonial for him.

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Asks CD’s help in obtaining data on finger-prints – both of ancient impressions in pottery and of living men of all races. Suggests a comparative study with similar markings of lemuroid monkeys might yield results of value about man’s origin. Gives the practical utility of prints in identification in criminal and legal studies and investigations. Encloses a form.

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Seed germination.

Strange that his plants [of Megarrhiza] behaved differently from AG’s [see 12455].

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On clubroot fungus of cultivated Cruciferae.

Will give Russian wheat varieties another trial.

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Thanks for the honour conferred upon him by the Epping Forest Field Club.

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Testimonial for S. B. J. Skertchly, stating CD’s high opinion of his work.

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On instinct in insects. Intends to experiment as CD proposes.

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Discusses sense of direction of cats and other animals.

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Speculates on origin of habit [of insects?] of laying eggs on plants of certain families.

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Nature [21 (1880): 382] has an item about tremors and earth movements in Japan.

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Thanks CD for his offer. Suggests it be used to start a fund to pay travel expenses of English naturalists who want to come to the Station.

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No one can prove death is inevitable, but the evidence in favour of this belief is overwhelming. It is in the highest degree improbable that man should cease to follow the general law of evolution, and evolution implies successive generations, which implies death.

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Leaves decision as to use of his gift to AD.

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Forwards, on behalf of the Birmingham Philosophical Society, an address offering CD the first honorary membership of the Society. Encloses formal record of this meeting.

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Thanks HWC and the Birmingham Philosophical Society for their address in his honour.

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Plants in Venezuelan plains.

Observations on Turnera: heterostyly, leaf-base glands’ secretion eaten by ants.

Observations on role of leaf secretions in fertilisation of Marcgravia and Passiflora.

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Thanks correspondent for a gift of books.

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Thanks JLC for his letter, pedigree, and MS of the history of the Darwin family.

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Potatoes will be lost unless JT has immediate authority to proceed.