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CD and ED bequeath an annuity of £50 to J. Parslow [the Darwins’ butler].

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His distress that his engagement has been broken off.

Sends copies of two papers ["On the parrots of the Malayan region", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1864): 279–97;

"On the physical geography of the Malay Archipelago", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 33 (1863): 217–34].

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Thanks CD for paper ["Climbing plants"].

Reports case of variation becoming at once hereditary – a crested blackbird with crested young.

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Sends a "Lanc & York" [railway share?].

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John Brent [book?] has come, and he will send it.

Hopes CD will visit again.

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Sends an allotment of shares which he presumes are Emma’s.

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Sending cheque for Down parish charities.

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Sends papers with comments. Convinced that the Aru pig is a species peculiar to New Guinea fauna, not a domestic animal that ran wild.

Admires CD’s paper ["Three forms of Lythrum", Collected papers 2: 106–31].

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University has at last provided room for a small zoological museum. The Philosophical Society might donate its collections to it, including CD’s fishes.

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Information concerning improvements in the Reader under new sponsorship.

Current reading and work [on pigeons for Ibis 1 (1865): 365–400, and catalogue of his collection of birds].

Book of travels postponed indefinitely.

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Thanks for correcting Fritz Miller’s paper on climbing plants. CD will send it to Linnean Society.

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"I return your letter to [William] Sharpey." Grandest eulogium CD has received.

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Requests all parts of Transactions due him.

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Is pleased to hear of Dr Heine’s interest in Origin. Questions whether Dr Heine’s law of inheritance can be demonstrated.

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Acknowledges receipt of £255 2s. 10d.

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Thanks for CD’s photograph.

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Acknowledges receipt of £257 12s. 2d.

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Delighted at CD’s praise of his book [Prehistoric times (1865)].

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Sends camera outlines of pollen. Thinks the red longstyled ones are more sterile than the yellow.

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JL’s MS at printer’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].

Apologises for failure to post letter.