Summary

Has received CD’s new book [Descent].

Will try to get answer to CD’s queries on Laura Bridgman.

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Sends, via C. L. Brace, his book [Botany for young people, pt 2 How plants behave (1872)], "your own science adapted to juvenile minds".

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Thanks for Orchids [2d ed.].

Does not feel his abstract of Cross and self-fertilisation [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 13 (1877): 125–41] was thorough enough.

Has heard of their sad bereavement last autumn [death of Amy, wife of Francis Darwin].

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Discusses arrangements for American edition of Variation.

Observations on apparently inherited instinct in a dog.

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Arrangements for the American edition of Origin.

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Discusses heterostyly in Houstonia.

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Sends Nesaea seeds for CD

and stamps for Leonard Darwin.

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AG is writing notice of American edition of Variation [Nation 6 (1868): 234–6].

Pangenesis is "as good an hypothesis as one can now make".

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A. S. Packard would like to visit CD to pay his respects.

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Sends "squib" he has written exposing the folly of some of Louis Agassiz’s ideas. AG cannot "fire off [his] cracker" in U. S. so sends it to amuse CD. If it is sent to Nature, CD must not give AG’s name. [See "Survival of the fittest", Nature 7 (1873): 404].

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Writes of his article in Nature. Corrects some errors that have appeared in the published version.

Summary

AG’s notices of Insectivorous plants [Nation 22 (1876): 12–14, 30–2]

and Climbing plants [2d ed., Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 11 (1876): 69–74].

Use of flower peduncles for support in Maurandia. Transition from branches to tendrils.

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Gives some observations on the sensitivity of Drosera species and comments on cases of "dioecio-dimorphism".

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Will observe Rhexia for CD to see whether it is dimorphic.

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Flower structure of Cypripedium insigne.

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Hopes to make good arrangement for publication of CD’s Variation.

Agassiz claims to have proved all of America was covered with unbroken ice during the glacial period.

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Discusses difficulties involved in deciding which genera are protean in the light of some comments by H. C. Watson.

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Thanks for sheets of new book. Intends to talk about it at a scientific social club meeting.

Is amused to read CD’s criticisms of his own style, as in the U. S. it is spoken of as being as faultless as his temper. Corrects a reference.

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Has received CD’s book [Forms of flowers]; thanks him for the compliment of the dedication.

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Germination of Megarrhiza. AG’s observations at variance with CD’s.