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Offers key to CD’s theory: fern roots are like little grubs.

Claims to have crossed the Australian Alps where Dr Müller [Ferdinand von Mueller?] failed.

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Sends abnormal pig’s foot. Does abnormality occur often?

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Thanks CD for helping his successful candidacy for F.R.S.

He is working up Arctic insects. Bombus is found at 83° N., as far north as has been reached.

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Grateful for CD’s support for his election as F.R.S.

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Explains why he did not add his photograph to the album presented by German naturalists to CD. Instead he wishes to dedicate to CD his work on the vertebrate-type eyes on the back of some Mollusca. [Enclosed is a MS introduction to this work, Über Sehorgane von Typus der Wirbelthieraugen auf dem Rücken von Schnecken.].

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Is sorting material collected by the Challenger and wonders whether CD would care to examine the cirripedes.

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Discusses abnormal pig’s foot sent to him by CD.

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Can CD explain why house sparrows persist in trying to build a nest in a spot from which it is daily removed?

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French translation of Insectivorous plants published.

Climbing plants has not sold well.

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Discusses the structure of the human cranium, in particular a find by Cocchi and observations by Canestrini.

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Cambridge University will offer CD an honorary degree.

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Offers a supplementary component to sexual selection which CD ignored in Descent: the direct effect of differences in ardour between males and females.

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Has read a German author’s exposition of CD’s theory.

Believes "missing link" between higher mammals and man consists of a race of "speaking monkeys" – akin to Africans – who pollute blood of better race and impede civilisation.

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Is less certain of views in letter of 17 May [10963]. Asserts interest in explaining the presence of "speaking monkeys", which occur in higher as well as lower classes.

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Lectured on Darwinism in Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Buffalo, and to 3500 people in New York City.

Despite close friendship with Cope and Hyatt and many explanations by the latter, he cannot understand their views.

Thanks CD for appreciation of his papers.

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CD elected unanimously as a foreign member of the Dutch Society of Sciences. [See 10970.]

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Asked C. E. Bessey whether Lithospermum longiflorum was dimorphic like its relatives. Encloses CEB’s reply.

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Writes in detail about Cambridge offer of the honorary LL.D.

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JDH’s view of Thiselton-Dyer’s engagement to his daughter, Harriet.

JDH is pleased to help with "bloom" questions.

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Responding to CD’s request for assistance with his study of "bloom", JDH sends seeds, a list of available plants, and a list of English wild plants with "bloom".