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Sends quotation from Armand Trousseau, Lectures on clinical medicine [1868–72] 5: 213, on interruption of menstruation in young girls upon changing schools, as an example of the effect of changed conditions of life.

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Data relating to experiments; shrinkage of earth on drying.

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Quickening of heart-beat in fear. A. H. Garrod does not think that this means that the heart is working harder.

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Sutton says monkeys often vomit, but cannot say whether they do it voluntarily.

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A. H. Garrod on relationship of heart-beat to amount of work done by heart.

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Has failed to discover the signs of earthworm activity that CD described.

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Appreciation [of Expression]. ARW will review it in Quarterly Journal of Science [n.s. 3 (1873): 113–18].

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Monkeys’ allegedly dying from yellow fever.

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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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Has sent CD’s letter to Nature [see 8448].

Expresses admiration for H. C. Bastian’s The beginnings of life [1872] and comments on its bearing upon Origin.

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Encloses a letter from Mr Moran, conveyed by Mr Lawrence.

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CD is urged to increase to 20 his shares in the Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Co. Ltd. Many prominent people have done so.

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Refuses an invitation on the grounds of ill-health.

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Response to 6th ed. of Origin. CD’s answer to Mivart on initial stages of modifications is complete; the "eye and ear objection" is not handled so satisfactorily.

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Asks FD questions about his sketch [missing] of ridges and furrows. [FD’s answers are interlined.]

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Will FD try to persuade A. D. Bartlett to show a live snake to a porcupine and observe whether the porcupine rattles the quills on its tail? [See 8333.]

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CD wants no more alterations than are necessary [to proofs of Expression]. Warns LD that "any alteration seems at first an improvement".

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

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Send parcel to Orpington station.

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Hopes to have a visit to discuss proportions to be left to the children under their wills; thinks 5/6 to the boys, 1/6 to the girls who "will have as much as is good for them".