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Gives permission to insert in his magazine anything from CD’s works.

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Declines, regretfully, to contribute to or to have his name appear on a new magazine.

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Thanks for monstrous floral specimen, but it is a common one.

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Asks for information about cases for stove-plants. [Answers recorded in another hand.]

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Thanks for their kind feelings towards him.

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Discusses deduction from bill for medicine.

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Obliged for the Theophrastus. Will return it.

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Requests priced samples of paper for mounting dried plants.

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Wishes to invest some money in railway shares; asks for the advice of the bank’s brokers.

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Wants to invest some money, as Treasurer of the Down Friendly Society.

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Thanks JBG for acceding to his wishes in the endeavour to discover whether hair colour in Europeans is correlated with susceptibility to tropical diseases [see Descent 1: 244–5].

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Quiz arrived safely.

CD’s three sons are in bed with bad colds.

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Pleased to hear through Miss Pennington that CEB-S intends to review Origin in a French journal. Suggests 3d ed. as this will soon appear in French translation. Does not expect perfect agreement on so complex a subject as descent.

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Asks how much he owes for his annual subscription to the Society.

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Has been in bad health and has just read HWB’s MS in the last two days. Praises the book; assured it will be successful. Offers to write to Murray. Hooker interested in conclusions on colour.

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On success of THH’s Edinburgh lectures.

Agrees that THH is right that the hybrid question is a "hiatus" [in the argument for natural selection] but he overrates it. Crossed varieties frequently produce sterile offspring. On this question asks THH to read his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]. CD suspects sterility will come to be viewed as a selected character.

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Lord Tankerville has not responded to the request for the skulls which LR requires for his research. CD addressed Lord T through his friend Sir Henry Holland, who is prepared to try again, despite Lord T’s rudeness.

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Entire family down with influenza. Has done nothing for three weeks.

Asks for Haast reference on New Zealand glacial deposits.

CD’s view of the North since Trent case. Can no longer write with sympathy to Asa Gray.

Encourages JDH about his son, Willy.

Problem of relation of colour to external conditions. Hopes JDH will undertake the investigation.

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Discusses Stellaria and other plants said to be dimorphic.

Asks for plants he wants for experiments.

Preparing a little book on Orchids.

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Much amused at the Witness.

Pleased at what THH says on hybridity.

Odd that objectors never allude to the arguments that alone have weight in their favour – affinities, rudimentary organs, etc.

Has 16 ill in the house!

Natural History Review a capital number.