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Thanks for the photographs.

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Regrets ill health will prevent his attending the BAAS meeting at Edinburgh.

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Refers H. H. Howorth, the writer of "A new view of Darwinism" [Nature 4 (1871): 161–2], to Variation for a discussion of fertility and sterility of organisms in relation to increased food and other factors.

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Sends photograph of himself for a proposed memoir in correspondent’s Review.

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Asks for some pamphlets, the titles of which have been sent to him by Dr Spengel [see 8053].

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Queries about the pitch of children’s crying.

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CD appreciates the correspondent’s suggestion.

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Declines to join movement; has not sufficiently considered subject.

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"Be so good as the send receipt to above address".

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CD has lost his reference to cross between gold and silver pheasants.

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[An autograph.] "With Mr Darwin’s compliments."

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Agrees to contribute £10 towards a new road in the area of Beckenham, although he doubts whether the road will be of much use to him.

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Invites correspondent to dinner and overnight the next Friday, and gives directions at length from London to Down. "I have heard from Mr Litchfield that you are in London … will you give us the pleasure of seeing you here".

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Asks recipient to send parcels to his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin, at 6 Queen Anne Street, London, and not to Down.

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Sends publication details of Coral reefs, which he thinks is now only available in Geology of the ‘Beagle’: Geological observations on coral reefs, volcanic islands, and on South America.

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Has not strength or time to hunt for Herminium monorchis; has failed to make orchid seeds germinate.

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Thanks recipient for information about eye colour of his shepherd dogs.

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Replies to C. R. Bree’s letter of 27 July [Nature 6 (1872): 260] contending that CD was wrong about early pedigree of man.

Defends the statement of CD’s view in Wallace’s review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of Bree’s book [Exposition of fallacies … of Darwin (1872)].

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Will see that the error is corrected in the next reprint.

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Thanks for the photographs of disks of stone, but not to trouble to send casts, as he will not work on expression again.