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Thanks FCD for information, which will make him "strike out a good deal".

Has received German pamphlet.

Will read work by John Soelberg Wells [? A treatise on the diseases of the eye (1869, 1870)].

Discusses his work on expression.

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Thanks HF for his essay ["Über den Einfluss der Naturwissenschaft auf das Recht", Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 18 (1872): 248–77]. CD gives views favouring competition among trades unions and the working classes.

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[An autograph.] "With Mr Darwin’s compliments."

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His father has gone to Egypt.

Tells of visit to circus.

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Will see CD tomorrow.

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Thanks JVC for his History of zoology [Geschichte der Zoologie bis auf Joh. Müller und Charl. Darwin (1872)]. Considers the title one of the greatest honours ever paid him.

Reports on foreign orders for the heliotype plates of Expression.

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Thanks JVC for his criticisms and corrections of Expression. Asks him to alter his translation accordingly.

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Discusses the research for his paper on Arctic plant beds in the freshwater aquifers of Scania (Nathorst 1872).

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Drosera filiformis captures only small insects [but see 8989].

Writes of her experiments with butterflies.

CD’s theory steadily gains ground in the U. S., despite Agassiz.

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Asks for London address of George King [Superintendent of Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta], so he can ask about worm-castings sent by King from S. India. Has just received a splendid letter from John Scott on worms.

Asks where he can buy Dionaea.

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CD cannot improve style [of Expression] without great changes. "I am sick of the subject, and myself, and the world".

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Condolences on death of JDH’s mother.

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Asks AWB for a reference to a paper;

thanks him for his generous review of the last edition [6th] of the Origin.

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Comments on CL’s Principles of geology, 11th ed.

Discusses natural selection in man.

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Asks whether he can start soon on translating Expression.

Thinks CD has gone a little too far on St G. J. Mivart’s objection, which he thinks did very little harm in Germany.

JVC’s history of zoology is finished [Geschichte der Zoologie bis auf Joh. Müller und Charl. Darwin (1872)].

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Reminisces on the evening he, B. J. Sulivan, and J. C. Wickham from the Beagle spent with CD, nearly ten years ago.

Hopes the mission at Tierra del Fuego will not "improve" the people to extinction.

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Proposes calling on CD with Prof. Wrightson of Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.

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Sends thanks for Expression; offers some additions, and will send printed queries abroad if CD wishes.

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Answers CD’s questions on arrangements for forthcoming publication of Expression – including cost of stereotypes, woodcuts, and photo reproductions for foreign translations.

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J. J. Moulinié is ill in Geneva, but translations of Origin and Descent progress.

Will undertake to publish translation of Expression.