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CD is pleased that EK will answer Butler. Thinks Butler is half insane.

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Returns [Butler’s] attack, which he forgot to send yesterday.

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Sends birthday wishes.

Discusses work on Medusae.

Recalls visit to Down.

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CD advises EK on his proposed letter answering Butler.

Considering the favourable reviews, sale of Erasmus Darwin has been poor.

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Birthday greetings.

Regrets Butler’s malicious attack.

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Describes formation of student nature study club at the University of Jena. Sends birthday greetings from the club.

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Sends birthday greetings

and the good news of a subvention for the Zoological Station received from the German government. There are now 20 naturalists working at the Station.

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It might be possible to borrow £500 [for potato experiments]. Variety of "The Champion" spreading over the Kingdom. Champion lately less able to produce.

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Encloses cuttings from Birmingham Daily Post, 12 February 1880, p. 4, and 13 February 1880, p.5, reporting the presentation to CD of the first honorary membership of the Birmingham Philosophical Society.

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Enjoyed HM’s castigation of Gaston Bonnier ["Gaston Bonniers angebliche Widerlegung der modernen Blumentheorie", Kosmos 7 (1880): 219–36].

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Thanks for his very kind letter.

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CD thanks RLT for his two notes, a newspaper article, and a copy of RLT’s address honouring him.

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Thanks EK for kind letter.

CD’s date on epitaph is a dreadful mistake. CD often overlooks errata.

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Thanks society of students at Jena for birthday congratulations.

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Thanks for articles by ASW in Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404]. Agrees with him.

Asks about growth of rootlets from knobs caused by fungus on roots of Cruciferae.

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At the inaugural meeting of the Epping Forest & Essex Naturalists’ Field Club, CD was elected an Honorary Member.

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Would be glad to see RLT at Down if he thinks it fit to come there to deliver the address honouring CD.

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Has been at work on Orchideae for Genera plantarum and has found CD’s Orchids wonderfully useful. Comments on some problems of botanical terminology.

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Thanks AD and the naturalists at the Station for their birthday congratulations.

CD has been awarded the Bressa prize of the Accademia delle Scienze in Turin, and it occurs to him that if the Station wanted some apparatus costing about £100, he would like to pay for it.

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Agrees not to reply to Butler.