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Complies with correspondent’s request; encloses photographs of himself.

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

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Provides CD with a method of obtaining a numerical ratio that expresses the superiority in heights of crossed plants to self-fertilised plants.

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Purchases cigarettes for CD.

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A believer in evolution seeks to convince CD that a spiritual creative force, rather than natural selection, explains its operation.

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Thanks EH for Arabische Korallen [1876].

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Are plants that arise from vegetative propagation individuals or merely parts of the original parent plant?

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Thanks FG for his report [on the statistical validity of CD’s experiments; see Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 16–18]. Discusses FG’s comments, his own experiments, and the means by which the results may be analysed.

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EH’s Arabische Korallen is spirited, clear, and poetical. With respect to formation of islands, thinks EH lays too much stress on views of Ehrenberg. Admires drawings.

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In response to CD’s query, answers that he has frequently heard discussions at the Horticultural Society of a saccharine secretion from leaves of the lime and has no doubt it really does occur. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 402.]

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Obliged for Belfast Journal.

Almost impossible to determine what constitutes an individual. Definition for sexually reproducing organisms does not apply to lower ones.

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Agrees to aid HA in applying for membership in a society.

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Bug on Tilia, cited in Variation, was Cimex apterus.

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Sends copy of Arabische Korallen [1876].

Comments on reception of his paper on "Gastrula" [see 10012].

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Thanks CD for comments on Arabische Korallen [1876].

Comments on Monoenia darwinii [?] as a primitive sponge.

Discusses criticisms of CD’s theory by K. E. von Baer ["Über Darwin’s Lehre", in Reden 2 (1876): 235–480].

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Cancelled: part of 11847

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He is surveying the literature on the struggle for existence among pasture plants. Asks CD for the "many cases on record" of changed relations among plants under slightly changed conditions alluded to in the Origin. [See M. T. Masters, J. B. Lawes and J. M. Gilbert "Agricultural, botanical, and chemical results of experiments on the mixed herbage of permanent meadow, conducted for more than twenty years in succession on the same land (pt 2, The botanical results)", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 1181–413.]

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Thanks for the copies of the Garden, which contain a drawing of CD and notice of his work.

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Thanks for a copy of Insectivorous Plants.

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Accepts WR’s offer of copies of the Garden for the next half-year.