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Sends notes of reports by E. A. Axon, George Ticknor, and Joseph Alley to Académie des Sciences on deaf mutes.

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Thanks CD for offer of a copy of Earthworms.

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Thanks for Earthworms. Is going to Nice for a few weeks to recuperate.

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BJS’s son has seen six Fuegians being exhibited in Berlin; BJS hopes that they might be bought from their master and returned to Tierra del Fuego.

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Expresses his admiration for CD and his work.

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Gives case of a mollusc, Scyllaea, which mimics the Sargassum on which it lives.

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Vegetable mould covering paving-stones in Oxfordshire lanes accumulated over 14 or 16 centuries.

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Asks whether he is to give a gratuity of "cinquanta lire sterling" to the cook at 6 Queen Anne St.

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Lists errata in Earthworms, which he is translating.

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Comments on CD’s Earthworms.

Discusses breeding habits of salmon; will the reliance on autumn-breeding fish to produce young lead to the decline of the number of spring- and summer-breeders in the rivers?

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He would support a foreigner for professorship of botany as CD suggests. W. T. Thiselton-Dyer is proposing W. C. Williamson, whom HNM considers a disaster.

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Thanks CD for copy of Earthworms.

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Earthworms leave their burrows on hearing rifle volleys.

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Financial paperwork; pleased at news of Horace and Ida Darwin’s baby, Erasmus.

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Thanks for Earthworms [fifth thousand].

Sends two of his papers.

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Thanks for copy of Origin with its flattering inscription.

Hopes some day to have leisure to do original research.

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Remarks on the sinking of piles of cannonballs in old forts; presumably a consequence of earthworm activity.

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Paperwork relating to 6 Queen Anne Street, London.

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Requests autograph.

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Sends CD his book of experimental work on fluids [Experimental researches into the properties and motions of fluids (1881)].

Draws his attention to a particular passage on liquid behaviour which, he speculates, may relate to the form of some lower plants.