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Thanks TCE for telling him of his crossed pigs. When they are grown, he would like to know whether they resemble each other.

Doubts the half-bred Gallus sonnerati will be productive, though he was assured many years ago that such a fertile half-breed once occurred.

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Send information about the bust of himself by Thomas Woolner and suggests applying to the sculptor himself about a cast.

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Has just heard that HM has been treated shamefully by his Government. What has happened?

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Has not strength or time to hunt for Herminium monorchis; has failed to make orchid seeds germinate.

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Regrets the trouble GHD has had.

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Monstrosity of fuchsia sent by GD not uncommon.

Does not recall bats at Galapagos.

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Will shorten or leave out many parts [of Erasmus Darwin] but cannot agree that it is not worth while to say something about the family.

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Had thrown Geographical Society’s Proceedings in waste-basket, but as Strachey shows such admirable powers of discrimination he will fish it out and read the whole article.

Comments on 3d ed. of Sachs’s work [Lehrbuch der Botanik (1873)]. Wishes he were more controversial.

Has become wonderfully interested in Drosera and Dionaea.

9000 copies of Expression have been printed and most are sold.

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Thanks AD-P for the gift of part of his Atlas [see 11039].

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Discusses tuition arrangements for Horace Darwin.

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Thanks for birthday greetings.

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Julius von Sachs’s views on stomata seem largely correct, but CD cannot understand how leaves can survive submerged for such long periods.

Has been observing Drosera and concludes that none of the movement of the tentacles is caused by growth.

Suggests observations to show role of pulvinus in leaf movement.

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CD agrees cultivated plants may begin to vary after some time and then may vary suddenly, but cautions JDH on lack of evidence. His explanation is that small variations are ignored until they accumulate.

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CD has written to Mivart to say that he will never hold any communication with him in future.

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Is obliged for addressee’s courteous note and is indifferent to how his name is used.

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Thanks for Quarterly Journal of Science 4 (1867). Has just read Wallace’s admirable article in last number ["Creation by law", Q. J. Sci. 4 (1867): 471–88]. He is a master of clear argument.

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CD thinks nothing had better be done about the deeds at present.

Henrietta thinks Erasmus Darwin almost too dull to publish.

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Asks when his waggonette will be finished.

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Did not know Duval-Jouve was an evolutionist.

Delighted at JTM’s success with spiders.

On JTM’s experiments with acids on seeds.

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Asks for information about japanned peacocks from Hudson [John Henry?] Gurney’s flock.