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Suggests GHD write a supplement to his review [of A. H. Huth’s The marriage of near kin (1875)]. Feels sorry Huth was taken in by the Legrain fraud. [See Autobiography (1958), pp. 143–4.]

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Sends comments and suggestions for Huth’s experiment on crossbreeding rabbits.

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Pleased by W. Stanley Jevons’ letter.

Has ordered Dr Cohn’s book.

Is sure that GHD’s energy will lead to success with work on viscous fluids.

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Asks that a copy of GHD’s paper on cousin marriage be sent to Hermann Müller. J. F. McLennan admires it "as a model".

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Gives further explanations of his theory of stirps and his objections to Pangenesis, in answer to a question of CD’s.

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Has received a baffling article on God, immortality, and socialism under a Darwinian point of view.

Clerk Maxwell has disagreed with CD on molecular calculations in relation to Pangenesis in Encyclopaedia Britannica article ["Atom", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed. (1875) 3: 36–49].

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Frank [Darwin] has found a Trifolium remarkable for "bloom", but it was not in flower. If GHD knows where it grows, could he dig up the whole plant?

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Asks GHD to calculate average or mean heights of crossed and self-fertilised plant species.

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Sends Mind. Henry Sidgwick’s article ["The theory of evolution in its application to practice", Mind 1 (1876): 52–67] is so clear it makes CD feel "a muddle-headed man". But he disagrees with Sidgwick on the origin of morality within tribes.

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Is sure mathematical discussion of elevation of continents will be valued by geologists.

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Comments on the reaction of geologists to GHD’s work on elevation of continents.

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Further comments on GHD’s work on the influence of geological changes on the earth’s axis.

Frank [Francis Darwin] has made a fine zoological discovery.

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Is determined not to believe in GHD’s astronomical work until J. C. Adams accepts it, for he would be so disappointed if it breaks down.

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All rejoice that J. C. Adams thinks well of GHD’s work and will present his paper to the Royal Society.

Gives news of his other sons.

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Refers him to Nature [14 (1876): 553] in which a Russian doctor [Prof. Poplavsky] contradicts GHD on deaf mutes not being closely interrelated.

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"Frank has sent the cards here."

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Has not yet heard from Cambridge. Thinks perhaps they do not intend to give him the degree.

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Has not yet received letter [about Cambridge honorary LL.D.].

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The widow of Jules Michelet is seeking donations towards his tomb, and says that he was a great admirer of CD.

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Had no intention of pressing CD over Madame Michelet’s fundraising for her husband’s tomb.