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Returns R. G. Haliburton’s paper ["The unity of the human race proved by the universality of certain superstitions connected with sneezing", reprinted in New materials for the history of man (1863)] and sends one of his own partly in answer to it ["The early condition of man", Anthropol. Rev. 6 (1868): 1–14].

Capital BAAS meeting at Dundee.

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Introduction of humble-bees into Australia.

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Many thanks for the book [Variation].

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Discusses [Fritz?] Müller’s confusion about ova and pseudova; JL’s Daphnia paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100; see 1979] first demonstrated their structural identity.

Points out a misleading statement in Variation.

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Returns Anthropological Review.

Asks to borrow Desmarest on Crustacea [Considérations générales sur la classe des crustacés (1825)].

Has been reading JL’s address to the Entomological Society [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 3d. ser. 5 (1865–7): cxiii–cxxxi].

Would like to hear JL’s conclusion for or against Pangenesis.

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Found [Variation] full of interest. Has not yet made up his mind about Pangenesis; wants to hear what can be said against it.

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Has been looking at the school accounts. Has any interest been paid to S. J. O’H. Horsman this year? CD will keep accounts temporarily; he has not yet received from Horsman the balance in hand from last year.

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JL’s Royal Institution lectures.

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Wants information on Fuegian harpoons. Must prepare second edition of Prehistoric times.

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Would like to borrow CD’s carriage on polling day.

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Arrangements for polling.

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JL’s failure to be elected to Parliament.

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Thanks for the pamphlets; JL’s paper, "Primitive condition of man" [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 6 (1868): 328].

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Visiting arrangements.

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Down School funds.

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Asks whether JL would be prepared to sign a petition on behalf of Miss Eliza Meteyard who is seeking a civil list pension.

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Down School funds.

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Asks for reference to Louis Agassiz’s views on embryos indicating ancestral structures.

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Has been asked by Henry Powell [new vicar of Down] for help to build a house at Down; asks for CD’s advice.

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Sexual differences in Labidocera darwinii, in Entomostraca, and Myriapoda.