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Thanks AR for specimens of fruit.

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Invites AG to Down for a weekend with A. Newton, R. Swinhoe, and Hooker.

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Requests the return of some plates sent in error.

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Returns CD’s MS [of entomological section of Descent] marked with suggested alterations.

Suggests qualifications about rudimentary horn in female Onitis furcifer [See Descent 1: 372].

Sends additional data on colour differences in sexes of longicorn Coleoptera [See Descent 1: 367–8].

Suggests a modification of CD’s view of female coloration that would bring him "nearly into harmony" with Wallace.

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Thanks CB for Transylvania [1865].

CD’s health has declined steadily. He must now be content to read about nature as described by CB and others.

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Refers to "Devonshire Man"’s attack on him ["Professor Huxley’s last new theory", Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Jan 1870, p. 6]. His intention to answer – a waste, except for political bearing of Celt question ["Professor Huxley on Celts and Teutons", Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Jan 1870, p. 6].

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Plans for his new book, Contributions to the theory of natural selection (1870), which will contain his papers on the subject.

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Response to ARW’s MS on geological time ["The measurement of geological time", Nature 1 (1870): 399–401, 452–5].

Groans over [what is said about] man.

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JBI sends clipping about a hybrid between a deer and a cow, from the same parish as the one reported in 1868.

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On the development of the mammae and the glands of the skin. R. A. v. Kölliker and Carl von Langer are the authorities [See Descent 1: 209].

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Suggests the recipient catch the 4.12 train.

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Asks JC-B to return copy of Duchenne [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)] and sends some notes "as your former notes were of such extreme interest to me".

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Discusses buying a horse [for CD].

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Conveys some information on a quiet horse which CD may be able to purchase from a riding school.

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Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.

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Asks CD to be godfather to her third child [Maud Mostyn Owen].

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Sends a copy of Notes and Queries for Francis Galton, as it contains a reply to Galton’s circular on hereditary genius.

RS much refreshed by his trip to Down.

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Believes he has found a quiet cob suitable for CD. Encloses a letter for CD to sign and send to the owner if he approves the idea.

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Sends thanks for election to American Philosophical Society.

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CD’s goddaughter, Maud, has been christened.