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Asks him to visit.

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Sends notes of reports by E. A. Axon, George Ticknor, and Joseph Alley to Académie des Sciences on deaf mutes.

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Can HdV supply a reference to a paper describing a stem or a root divided longitudinally and the separate parts acted on by geotropism.

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Thanks for HdeV’s letter, which is a great relief to him.

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Thanks CD for offer of a copy of Earthworms.

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Sends his subscription for the adopted Fuegian [James FitzRoy Button].

Feels very old and wishes he could be idle but finds himself miserable without any daily work.

Is reading Lyell’s biography [K. M. Lyell (1881)].

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"I should be a strange creature if I did not feel real pleasure in seeing you." Recalls GWN’s kindness and assistance over forty years.

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Thanks for Earthworms. Is going to Nice for a few weeks to recuperate.

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Is delighted with JP’s article on vivisection ["Vivisection: its pains and its uses, No. 1", Nineteenth Century 10 (1881): 920–30]. CD is "boiling over with indignation on the subject".

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BJS’s son has seen six Fuegians being exhibited in Berlin; BJS hopes that they might be bought from their master and returned to Tierra del Fuego.

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Expresses his admiration for CD and his work.

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Thanks FGMP for his sympathetic and very kind letter.

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Gives case of a mollusc, Scyllaea, which mimics the Sargassum on which it lives.

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Vegetable mould covering paving-stones in Oxfordshire lanes accumulated over 14 or 16 centuries.

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Asks whether he is to give a gratuity of "cinquanta lire sterling" to the cook at 6 Queen Anne St.

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Lists errata in Earthworms, which he is translating.

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Case of Roman roads would have been worth investigating for Earthworms. [See 13531.]

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Comments on CD’s Earthworms.

Discusses breeding habits of salmon; will the reliance on autumn-breeding fish to produce young lead to the decline of the number of spring- and summer-breeders in the rivers?

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He would support a foreigner for professorship of botany as CD suggests. W. T. Thiselton-Dyer is proposing W. C. Williamson, whom HNM considers a disaster.

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Discusses subscription for Grant Allen. Suggests present of microscope.