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Reports curious case of dimorphism in Rubiaceae. Encloses envelope containing bud samples.

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Has received Australian government grant to collect and publish on fossils. Has collected thousands of fossils.

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Acknowledges presentation copy of Orchids.

Asks advice on what to do with all his fossils. Sending various specimens.

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Seeks to define oldest fossil cirripede.

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Evidence of glacial action in Australia. [See Origin, 4th ed., p. 443.]

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Answers CD’s questions on Australian flora, bees, geology.

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Thanks WBC for his account of glacial action in Australia. A mundane cooler period would throw a flood of light on geographical distribution. Has sketched a large MS on subject but does not know whether he will live to publish it.

Questions WBC on striated granite boulders.

Asks him to make a botanical experiment on insect fertilisation.

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Thanks for Haast’s observations. Particularly glad to get geological evidence of glacial action (in Southern Hemisphere).

Thinks Ramsay’s theory to large extent true, but thinks that in a much disturbed country some lakes would have been formed in depressions.

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He will send CD one of his sketches to add to the two CD has kept since Beagle days.

Asks for FitzRoy’s address.