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Wants WED to thank F. de Chaumont for some valuable observations.

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Sends correspondent a £25 subscription for George Cupples.

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Ogle will keep JT’s suggestion in mind in observing less hairy races of man and the lower animals.

Asks JT whether he can help Ogle on a troublesome point on the colour of tissues with olfactory nerves, and the relation of colour to the absorption of odours. Does JT’s respirator deprive odorous substances of their smell?

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Ogle is unacquainted with JT; would be proud and pleased to call on him. CD likes what little he has seen of him.

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Comments on Descent.

EH’s refusal of position at Vienna.

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Asks for a drawing from life of a "laughing monkey" (Cynopithecus niger) for Expression [p. 136].

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Admits pointer illustration is faulty.

Discusses shame, remorse, social instincts, approbation, and other topics discussed in Descent, ch. 4. "But as yet I nail my colours to the mast."

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Invites him to visit.

Miss Butler is dead.

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Has forwarded FDuCG’s book [Natural history of the Azores (1870)] to Dr Hartlaub.

Asks about eyes of camel when the animal is uttering a loud sound.

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Thinks J. P. M. Weale’s papers all require great condensation.

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Thanks for letter [7533] and the interesting notes. Even more interesting is HHHvZ’s case of the De Haas family.

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Pleased that JJM has finished translation of Descent.

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Will write again to Tyndall about odours.

Asks for the circumstances under which WO saw a man arrested for murder; quotes from notes he made from WO’s conversation [Expression, p. 294].

Also would like to quote WO on the expression of resignation by persons about to undergo serious operations [Expression, p. 271].

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Ogle wants very much to meet JT.

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Thanks JT for his kindness to Ogle.

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Asks what his profits on the reprints of Descent will be when half have been sold.

Good reviews in Saturday Review and Pall Mall Gazette;

contemptuous one as usual in Athenæum.

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The information about the phascolarctos [koala] is very surprising, and he will preserve AM’s note.

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Seeks to clarify his and HW’s views on the causes of repentance or shame.

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Asks permission to copy plates from GBAD’s work [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)] to illustrate Expression.

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Gives his opinion on four papers by J. P. M. Weale.