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Thanks JL and his father for advice regarding Southampton bank. Has written to Atherley for fair terms.

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Thanks JL for assistance with William Darwin’s banking partnership; considers everything is now settled.

Is enjoying himself and doing a little work on orchids.

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Has visited T. V. Wollaston, who is working hard but lives too solitary a life.

There are further legal complications with William Darwin’s partnership and CD’s solicitor wants to call on JL.

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Asks JL’s advice about details of William’s proposed banking partnership. CD’s solicitor is suspicious of Atherley’s long-term intentions.

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JL’s kindness has laid William and himself "under an enduring obligation". One clause in the partnership agreement seems harsh but will probably never signify.

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With some hesitation CD’s solicitor advises acceptance of partnership offered to William.

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JL is thinking of moving to Brighton.

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Sends paper [on ancient Swiss lake-habitations, Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51] for CD’s opinion.

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Sir George Clerk to be new President of the Zoological Society.

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Has had 16 in the household ill.

Wants to meet JL.

Praises JL’s paper ["Ancient lake-habitations of Switzerland", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51].

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Dining with the Lubbocks.

JL’s paper on respiration of insects ["On the distribution of the tracheae in insects", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1860–2): 23–50].

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Grateful for CD’s approval of "Lake-habitations".

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Will visit CD on Saturday.

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Hopes CD will come to lunch on Saturday. The Busks and J. D. Hooker are with JL.

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JL is going on a geological excursion with Joseph Prestwich and John Evans.

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Thanks for Orchids.

"The big book [Variation] will no doubt go on again now."

JL is writing on Somme implements ["Evidence of antiquity of man", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 244–69].

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Leonard Darwin’s illness.

William Darwin and the bank.

Beginning to make out a marvellous case of trimorphism.

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JL’s Swiss tour with Tyndall and Huxley.

Lake-habitations.

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CD was in error about bees’ behaviour at clover.

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Hive-bees and clover.