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

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CD forwards letter from F. J. Cohn [11093] that provides confirmation of observations by Francis Darwin on the contractile filaments protruded from the glands of Dipsacus.

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Thanks correspondent for writing, "but such malconformations, as you mention, are not very rare & therefore do not possess much novelty".

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Thanks for note and plant specimen. Will take care of it for his own sake and Kew’s.

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Has not seen K. E. von Baer’s paper ["Über Papuas und Alfuren", Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg (Sci. Nat.) 8 (1859): 269–346], but has read extract.

Knew of case of hairy and toothless family through John Crawfurd, Journal of an embassy from the Governor-General of India [2d ed. (1834)].

Working on causes of variability.

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Thanks correspondent, "Ponderer", for pointing out his erroneous calculation of the rate of increase of elephants in Origin [p. 64]. [!?or p. 74!? (see 6775f), or 75, (see 6790)]

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[A quotation in CD’s hand, signed and dated, from the introduction to Orchids.] "I have never once expressed a wish for aid or for information, which has not been granted, as far as possible, in the most liberal spirit."

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Comments on a case of crossing distant plants of Habenaria

and on hermaphroditism in hybrid plants.

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Thanks correspondent for sending extracts about the jackal.

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Notes some corrections for 2d ed. of Descent.

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CD and Emma request transfer of some shares to E. A. Darwin.

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

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Cancelled: third-party letter from ’ETS’.

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Is obliged for addressee’s courteous note and is indifferent to how his name is used.

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CD is obliged for a note he will use for a new [2d] edition of Variation [1875].

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Reports the possible extinction of the Macartney Rose.

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Thanks for the photographs of disks of stone, but not to trouble to send casts, as he will not work on expression again.