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Glad to hear that ARW is so busy.

CD believes that he has thrown some light on the acquirement of the power of digestion in Droseraceae [in Insectivorous plants].

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Encloses corrections and notes on Variation [1st ed.].

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Thiselton-Dyer has asked on CD’s behalf for results of experiments at Rothamsted on herbage of permanent meadow land. Sends report and tables of botanical analysis.

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Solicits JDH and others at Kew for signatures to nomination of Francis Darwin for membership of Linnean Society.

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Has received a confusing set of engravings, with both missing and superfluous illustrations [for Polish translation of Descent].

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Recounts the removal and regrowth of her son’s extra digit; her grandfather showed the same condition.

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No new experiments on mutually sterile maize varieties since his paper in Botanische Zeitung in 1868.

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His appreciation of Insectivorous plants, especially Utricularia section.

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Has previously quoted details concerning the regrowth of her amputated extra digit in Variation [2: 14–15]. The case has since been disputed, so CD, who is revising his work, asks for some fuller details.

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Gives extracts from her father’s diary concerning the amputation and regrowth of her sister’s extra finger.

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Asks HAH to keep Francis Darwin’s nomination paper [for Linnean Society] for Huxley to sign on return. FD appends personal note.

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Apologises that he cannot supply any maize seed.

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Has received but not yet read Insectivorous plants.

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Sends CD specimen pages, with two different type spacings, for Climbing plants.

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Regrets he is too busy to accept CD’s invitation to visit Down, but could only thank him again for saving the Zoological Station from shipwreck.

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Italian translation of Variation will at last be published; will await second [English] edition to incorporate corrections.

Asks permission to translate Expression.

The second [Italian] edition of Origin is now in press.

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JDH will arrive by train on Saturday.

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Will be delayed on Saturday because of unveiling of a monument to Sir J. Franklin at Westminster Abbey.

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RC will confer with printer about type, etc., for reprint of Variation.

Only 250 copies remain of [2d ed. of] Descent – will print 1000 more for annual sale.

Expression does not move.

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Compliments JNH on the instructive tone of his sermon [‘Hospital Sunday’ preached in Chapel Royal, Dublin, 15 Nov 1874].