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Notes on variation and selection; discussion of how selection could act to the advantage of a group but not to that of an individual within the group.

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Notes on natural selection; discussion of factors mitigating the swamping influence of intercrossing on incipient variations.

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Suggests transplanting plant ovaries to test Pangenesis.

None of the cats released in experiment found its way back.

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Thanks for permission to use CD’s MS chapter on instinct for forthcoming book.

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Thanks for permission to use CD’s observations on instinct. Would like to use CD’s MS chapter in preparing forthcoming book [Mental evolution in animals (1883)].

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Looks forward to reading CD’s statements about reflex action in Insectivorous plants.

Has prepared paper ["Physiology of the nervous system of Medusae", Rep. BAAS (1876): 158–63] in which he insists on occurrence of reflex action in absence of nerves. Would like to cite CD’s authority for occurrence of reflex action in plants.

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Delighted to hear of Frank Darwin’s discovery.

Seems hopeless to reason with people about vivisection.

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Thanks for letter of sympathy.

Would like to visit in May.

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Thanks for letter and book [J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie (1876)].

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Intends experiment to see if cats released in country can find their way back.

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Sends proofs of Encyclopaedia Britannica article on hybridism [9th ed., 12: 422–6]. Can CD mention authorities who should be cited?

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Suggests CD delay arrangements for his Linnean Society portrait. GJR thinks John Collier would be willing to paint it.

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Thanks for comments on his lecture ["Nervous system of Medusa"]

and for information [about J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie (1876)].

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Thanks for copy of W. O. Focke [Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge (1881)].

Has nearly finished paper on locomotor system in echinoderms.

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Returns book [W. O. Focke, Pflanzen-Mischlinge]. It was of great use.

Suggests experiment involving light stimulation of plants.

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Glad CD thinks experiment worth trying [see 12904]. Has written to John Tyndall for permission to do it at Royal Institution.

Paper on echinoderms written [with J. C. Ewart, "Locomotor system of Echinodermata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 172 (1881): 829–85].

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Thanks for copy of 2d ed. of Variation.

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Galton agrees with GJR about rudimentary organs.

GJR’s note referred to possibility of selection acting on organic types as distinguished from individuals.

Thinks Grant Allen has not made out his point [in Physiological aesthetics (1877)], but his fundamental principle probably has much truth.

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GJR’s speech at Dublin [BAAS meeting] was an enormous success, with tremendous applause at mention of CD’s name at the finale.

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Preparing his book, Animal intelligence [1882].

Spent an afternoon with a spiritualist but did not learn anything.