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Thanks for correcting Fritz Miller’s paper on climbing plants. CD will send it to Linnean Society.

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"I return your letter to [William] Sharpey." Grandest eulogium CD has received.

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Is pleased to hear of Dr Heine’s interest in Origin. Questions whether Dr Heine’s law of inheritance can be demonstrated.

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Requests all parts of Transactions due him.

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Acknowledges receipt of £255 2s. 10d.

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Acknowledges receipt of £257 12s. 2d.

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Asks her to send some specimens of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s handwriting for the Autographic Mirror.

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CD would be proud to be one of EW’s series [Portraits of men of eminence (1863–7)]. If he goes to London in the summer he will call on Mr Edwards [the photographer].

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"Read a letter from Mr Darwin expressing his regret that the state of his health would not permit of his writing an Introductory Chapter to the Translation of Gaertner’s work [Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849)]."

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Thanks WB for his note, states that it will be taken care of on the publication of CD’s book [Variation].

Mentions loss of many months owing to illness.

Thanks WB for favour to CD’s son.

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Handwritten extract from Origin 3d ed., p. 514.

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Declines writing testimonial for AN for the Cambridge Professorship in Zoology. The post requires expertise in comparative anatomy and histology, whereas AN’s work is on habits and colours of birds.

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Thanks for note; sends photograph taken by one of his sons.

His continued ill-health has prevented him making the acquaintance of many.

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Asks that the long paper that he is sending for the Society be acknowledged when received.

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Returns [Andrew] Murray’s paper;

especially values HD’s note that the same species of lice infect the different varieties of fowl, pigeon, and dog. Further queries about the relationship of the same species of pediculi to different domestic varieties.

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Has heard from Mr Pennell, and written to say too ill to see him. Would like to hear about skin between toes of otter hounds in comparison with other hounds.

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Concerning the proposed translation of K. F. von Gärtner’s Bastarderzeugung (1849).

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Reports the results of an experiment to compare the weight of seeds produced in plants of [Medicago sativa] by self-pollination and by insect pollination.

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Comments on the facsimile of his handwriting made by HK, and points out two errors in the letter press.

Encloses three letters written by Erasmus Darwin, and asks HK to return them to Eliza Meteyard.

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Did not think anyone would notice case of Lathyrus.

Recalls reading correspondent’s paper on great fir woods of Hampshire.

Thanks for photograph.