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Congratulations on JL’s marriage. Invitation to dine at Down with the Hookers, Huxleys, and T. V. Wollaston.

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Inquires about a Mr Smith, who might prove helpful "in the domestic bird line".

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Wishes to borrow fly pincers for his son George.

Discusses T. V. Wollaston’s book on insect variation [On the variation of species (1856)].

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Smallpox in the village. Death of Joseph Parslow’s son.

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Quotes passage from [Frédéric?] Gerard on distribution of certain Lepidoptera.

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Sends review by Quatrefages [de Bréau] of Owen’s Parthenogenesis [1849].

J. D. Dana’s congratulations on JL’s marriage.

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Comments on JL’s paper on Daphnia, ["An account of methods of reproduction in Daphnia and of the structure of the ephippium", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100].

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Discusses arthropod structure and the nature of the corium.

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JL is studying Cynipidae. CD sends galls for his examination.

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Thanks JL for saving him from "a disgraceful blunder". Following their conversation he has divided the New Zealand flora as JL suggested and finds genera with four or more species are more variable than those with three or less. It will take several weeks to go back over all his material.

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Huxley and William Sharpey praise JL’s paper [? on Daphnia, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100] at Philosophical Club.

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Praise for abstract of JL’s paper on insects ["On the ova and pseudova of insects", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 9 (1857–9): 574–83].

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Variations in the structure of Pelargonium flowers.

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Voting to elect JL [a member of Athenaeum].

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Invites JL to dine and meet J. S. Henslow.

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Comments and criticisms on JL’s paper [possibly: "On the development of Chloëon dimidiatum", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 61–78].

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JL’s brother’s accident.

Thinks JL should tackle systematics of anomalous insects from studies of internal organs.

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CD sees JL’s cases of same organs varying greatly in allied forms as a serious difficulty in regard to his own ideas.

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Development of aphids; apparent absence of vermiform stage.

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Wants examples of insects (especially Diptera) in which embryo resembles adult, to show that the metamorphic stages may be lost.