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Asks supplementary questions about Kattywar (Kathiawari) horses in India.

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Further information about about Kattywar (Kathiawari) horses in India.

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Asks JP to remember him if anything occurs to him "in regard to inheritance at corresponding or rather earlier ages". Sends JP a few examples for his "Chronometry of life". CD is sure he often met with striking facts but he disregarded them. "Deviations alone would have struck me."

Effects of different climates on breeding periods.

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Discusses the variation of species in large and small genera.

Thanks AG for his list of close species.

Laments the slow progress he makes with his book [Natural selection].

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Zebra-striped asses.

Markings of a Bengal jungle cock.

Refers to some of his own articles on birds in India.

Reports the arrival of the "glorious garrison of Lucknow". The "wonderful superiority of the European to the Asiatic" made the success of the insurrection inconceivable.

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After all, CD is now beginning to prepare an abstract of his species theory. Recounts the events leading to joint paper with A. R. Wallace at Linnean Society. Lyell and Hooker urge strongly that he publish a fuller abstract. It is impossible to do justice to subject in an abstract.

His sister, Marianne Parker, has died.

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Asks whether botanists tend to record varieties more carefully in large genera or small genera.

Wants information on the ranges of varieties of a species compared to the range of the species.

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Has received Burmese fowls’ skins from Walter Elliot.

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General success of survey makes CD very concerned about sources of error. Wants to meet JDH for an important talk about big genera. Arranges meeting.

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Returns books by Candolle and Robert Brown.

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C. C. Babington agrees with JDH that botanists tend to note varieties more in large genera than in very small ones.

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CD’s receipt of diploma from Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Academy [Dresden].

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Extremely sorry for trouble he has given about his signature.

One child dangerously ill with diphtheria, another with much fever.

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Death in family [Charles Waring Darwin]. Illness of children forces him to leave home and interrupt work on pigeons.

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Regards from Isle of Wight.

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Has finished arranging his pigeons’ skeletons. May consult TCE on them.

CD is at work on an abstract of his conclusions on species and varieties [Origin]. His "bigger book" [Natural selection] will take two or three more years.

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Asks whether there are dogs in Spain like English pointers.

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Asks about dirt clinging to feet of birds as means of seed distribution.

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Thanks RMR for contribution to Down charities. Declines invitation.

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Believes that, in Dicentra, Fumaria and Corydalis, flower structures are related directly to visits from bees. Flower stigmas generally are placed in the path of bees.

Has received paper from Wallace on natural selection; has sent abstract of his notions, with Wallace’s paper, to Linnean Society.