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Glad to have heard JL’s admirable speech read aloud.

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JL’s sentence about glaciation will do excellently. Is glad JL thought about dimorphism of butterflies.

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Condolences on the death of JL’s wife.

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Suggests that the pappus of Compositae, when lying on ground, may absorb water which may function in seed germination.

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Comments on MS of JL’s [1881] BAAS Presidential Address. Suggests that more attention be given to parthenogenesis.

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JL’s address [Presidential Address, 31 Aug 1881, Rep. BAAS (1881): 1–51] has made him think about important steps in advancing geology. Lists major advances in his lifetime.

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Supports the statements on Henry Hicks in JL’s address.

Bonney is an "objector general".

CD has always supported A. C. Ramsay.

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Asks about source of paper on the metamorphosis of Pycnogonida for C. S. Bate.

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Sends four parts of Van Tieghem, and recommends Wiesner 1881.

Forgot to suggest that JL repeat experiments with bees and artifical flowers.

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Letter of introduction for Romilly Allen.

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Sends beetle he cannot identify.

Reading J. O. Westwood [Introduction to the modern classification of insects (1839–40)] has reawakened his passion for entomology.

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Regrets he cannot help JL; the point [unspecified] was always a trouble to CD also.

Has been to a poultry show.

Asks for the return of a lens.

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Praise for JL’s interesting paper ["On the freshwater entomostraca of South America", Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. n.s. 3 (1854–6): 232–46].

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Congratulations to JL on finding musk-ox fossil.

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CD has more specimens of Helix pomatia.

Thanks for Lepidoptera book.

Invites JL to dinner.

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Congratulations on JL’s marriage. Invitation to dine at Down with the Hookers, Huxleys, and T. V. Wollaston.

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Inquires about a Mr Smith, who might prove helpful "in the domestic bird line".

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Wishes to borrow fly pincers for his son George.

Discusses T. V. Wollaston’s book on insect variation [On the variation of species (1856)].

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Smallpox in the village. Death of Joseph Parslow’s son.

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Quotes passage from [Frédéric?] Gerard on distribution of certain Lepidoptera.