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FD’s corrections for Orchids [1877] are all very good and useful.

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Sends [unidentified] volume for FD.

Ferdinand Cohn is coming to Down.

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Informs LD of the death of Francis Darwin’s wife, Amy.

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Forwards chapter [of Orchids (1877)] for correction.

Sadness at the death of Amy.

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Suggests German works worth translating.

Is glad FD is keeping busy; he has worked excellently on proof-sheets [of Orchids (1877)].

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Sends last chapter of Orchids [1877] for revision.

Has some articles that might interest FD.

Has invited Ferdinand Cohn and his wife to Down but hopes they will not come.

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PAH’s friend, a florist, is repeating CD’s experiments with Dionaea muscipula.

CD’s works stir interest in America.

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Recommends that CD buy a plot of land.

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Sends £25 subscription, though he is not a churchman.

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Thanks CD for sending a photograph.

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Has received a baffling article on God, immortality, and socialism under a Darwinian point of view.

Clerk Maxwell has disagreed with CD on molecular calculations in relation to Pangenesis in Encyclopaedia Britannica article ["Atom", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed. (1875) 3: 36–49].

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Discusses the purchase of some land;

plans to visit Southampton.

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Thanks for RS’s work [Die Darwin’schen Theorien und ihre Stellung zur Philosophie, Religion und Moral (1876)].

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Reports the death of Francis’ wife, Amy.

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Would like to see the pigeons, though he is not likely to work on the subject again. When he hears from Dr Scully, he will present them to the British Museum.

Has not had time to use the information about earthworms yet, but hopes to use it in about a year’s time.

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Discusses death of his daughter-in-law

and possible visit by EH.

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Thanks JS for three essays. Has read with great interest the essay on the basking shark ["Sur les appareils tamiseurs ou fanons branchiaux du Pélerin", Kjo|benhaven Oversigt (1873): 47–66]. The explanation that the comb-like structures are of the nature of teeth is a "most wonderful case".

Sends his photograph.

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Reports on rats that gnawed holes in lead pipes.

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CD grieves over death of Frank’s wife Amy; worries that it will weaken Frank’s determination to pursue his scientific work.

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Thanks GWN for condolences on death of Amy, his daughter-in-law.