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Summarises, with comments, two letters from Johann von Fischer [10598, 10600] on the display by monkeys of their brightly-coloured hindquarters, and the relation of this behaviour to sexual selection.

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Is working at dimorphic plants;

is astonished at WED’s labour.

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Pleased to hear about GHD’s paper at the Royal Society.

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Has written of his idea [on the formation of the gravels near Southampton] to James Geikie, who thought it very feasible.

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Writes about the purchase of a horse.

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Sends W. Thomson’s complimentary opinion of his paper "On the influence of geological changes on the earth’s axis" [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 271–312].

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Sends some sheets [of Cross and self-fertilisation].

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Thanks for present of Studien [zur Descendenz-Theorie, vol. 2 (1876)].

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Asks CD’s opinion of a proposed protest [unspecified] and asks whether he will sign it.

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Informs CD about Apocynum androsaemifolium, an insectivorous plant not mentioned in CD’s book. Offers to send specimen.

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Asks advice on transplanting insectivorous plants.

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Agrees with much of CV’s proposed protest but cannot sign it. Feels it is likely to do more harm than good.

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Thanks CD for considering his protest, which he has now decided not to carry out.

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Expresses his pleasure in reading Die Schutzmittel der Blüthen gegen unberufene Gäste (Kerner 1876)..

Realises he has made some errors in Cross and self fertilisation.

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Sends photograph of man with peculiar facial features, whom HW treated at St Mark’s Ophthalmic Hospital.

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Thanks for a correction. Hopes AG now has all the sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation.

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Writing under the name of Friedrich von Bärenbach, FM sends his paper on J. G. Herder as a precursor of Darwin’s theory [Herder als Vorgänger Darwins (1877)]; hopes CD will acknowledge him as such.

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Responds to request that his son [Francis] aid EBT with book. Comments on EBT’s excellence as anthropologist.

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Promises to propose JJW for membership in Zoological Society.

Sympathises with JJW’s enthusiasm about the Danais and hopes it may become naturalised in this country.

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Reports graft-hybrids in Cytisus.