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[Notes on conversations with J. D. Hooker.] Geographical distribution; diffusion and distribution of species. Island and mountain floras; means of migration (high-roads, icebergs).

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Published as an appendix to vol. 2 of the Correspondence; see https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/tags/about-darwin/family-life/darwin-marriage. Debates with himself the pros and cons of marriage. Considers plans for future.

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Published as an appendix to vol. 2 of the Correspondence; see https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/tags/about-darwin/family-life/darwin-marriage. Considers his options for the future. Debates marriage and the best place to live. Feels the need for experiment and direct observation which would be difficult living in London; he "could not go on as Lyell does correcting & adding up new information to old train".

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CD and ED bequeath an annuity of £50 to J. Parslow [the Darwins’ butler].

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Asks for some pamphlets, the titles of which have been sent to him by Dr Spengel [see 8053].

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Queries about the pitch of children’s crying.

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CD appreciates the correspondent’s suggestion.

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Declines to join movement; has not sufficiently considered subject.

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"Be so good as the send receipt to above address".

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CD has lost his reference to cross between gold and silver pheasants.

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[An autograph.] "With Mr Darwin’s compliments."

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Agrees to contribute £10 towards a new road in the area of Beckenham, although he doubts whether the road will be of much use to him.

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Invites correspondent to dinner and overnight the next Friday, and gives directions at length from London to Down. "I have heard from Mr Litchfield that you are in London … will you give us the pleasure of seeing you here".

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Asks recipient to send parcels to his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin, at 6 Queen Anne Street, London, and not by post.

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Has not strength or time to hunt for Herminium monorchis; has failed to make orchid seeds germinate.

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Thanks recipient for information about eye colour of his shepherd dogs.

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Replies to C. R. Bree’s letter of 27 July [Nature 6 (1872): 260] contending that CD was wrong about early pedigree of man.

Defends the statement of CD’s view in Wallace’s review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of Bree’s book [Exposition of fallacies … of Darwin (1872)].

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Will see that the error is corrected in the next reprint.

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On cats’ habit of leaving the room or house in which a corpse is lying.

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Obliged for the note of reference, but does not know what to think of the statement about the watering mouth.