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Rejoices at THF’s consenting to the marriage of his daughter Ida and Horace Darwin, although the match is a poor one for Ida "in a worldly point of view". [See 12253.]

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DM is highly gratified by CD’s opinion of his labours on boulders [see 12252]. He owes his start on this subject to CD. Since 1843 he has supported CD’s views on transportation of boulders by ice.

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Sends £2 for the "Buttonian subscription" [see 9229].

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DM may show CD’s letter [to the Royal Society].

Pleased that his old paper should have stimulated DM to such excellent work.

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Thanks for CD’s reply to her letter and his kindness. She is getting over her difficulties.

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Sends his thanks for the beautifully illustrated book for children [What Mr Darwin saw]

and for the memorials of William Lloyd Garrison. [See 12248.]

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Wants some seeds to see how certain seedlings break through ground.

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Describes cow with three toes

and a woman with two functional nipples on left breast.

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Suggests £20 as a fair payment for his work on Erasmus Darwin.

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Sends corrections. Printing of German edition has not yet begun.

Charles Reinwald wishes to print only CD’s sketch. French hostility to Germans the reason.

Gustav Jäger and Robert Caspary no longer on title-page of Kosmos.

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Thanks for ESM’s paper [see 12201].

Remarks on progress of Japan.

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Thanks CdeC for his work [Anatomie comparée des feuilles (1879)]. The plates are wonderfully good.

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Condolences on the death of JL’s wife.

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Polydactylism is very common, and so are supernumerary mammae in men and women.

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Forwards newspaper reports by growers of Torbitt’s potatoes. Torbitt is in much distress and CD fears all his work will be thrown away unless he is aided.

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Is obliged for the note about Wallis Nash’s death, but he has since heard that the report was false.

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Thanks for all Horace has done for him and for his ship-shape account. Hopes Horace has charged him enough. There will be less to divide amongst them, which seems to please Frank.

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CD thanks Krause for the errata.

CD is sorry to hear that Krause’s part will not appear in the French edition, and cannot believe that C.-F. Reinwald would be influenced by antagonism to the Germans. Reinwald always gives CD a small percentage on sales, and CD had intended to pass it on to EK.

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Requests seeds of Ipomoea and Megarrhiza for observations on seedling growth.

Is rereading MS of Movement in plants.

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Asks CD what title to put on spine of Erasmus Darwin. Suggests 7s 6d as the price.