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Sends paper [on ancient Swiss lake-habitations, Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51] for CD’s opinion.

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Sir George Clerk to be new President of the Zoological Society.

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Grateful for CD’s approval of "Lake-habitations".

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Will visit CD on Saturday.

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Hopes CD will come to lunch on Saturday. The Busks and J. D. Hooker are with JL.

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JL is going on a geological excursion with Joseph Prestwich and John Evans.

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Thanks for Orchids.

"The big book [Variation] will no doubt go on again now."

JL is writing on Somme implements ["Evidence of antiquity of man", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 244–69].

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JL’s Swiss tour with Tyndall and Huxley.

Lake-habitations.

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CD’s health is bad.

Would like to visit CD on Friday.

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Hopes to visit tomorrow if CD is up to it.

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Thinks Bates’s paper on mimetic butterflies ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566], is very good; would appreciate an article on it from CD ["On mimetic butterflies", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 219–24; Collected papers 2: 87–92].

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Thanks CD for agreeing to review Bates’s paper for Natural History Review.

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Has had 16 in the household ill.

Wants to meet JL.

Praises JL’s paper ["Ancient lake-habitations of Switzerland", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51].

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Leonard Darwin’s illness.

William Darwin and the bank.

Beginning to make out a marvellous case of trimorphism.

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CD was in error about bees’ behaviour at clover.

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Hive-bees and clover.

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Finds JL’s facts on the diving insect that remains four hours under water new and interesting [see "On two aquatic Hymenoptera", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1864): 135–42].

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Would like JL to call.

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Hopes to be well enough on Friday to see JL.

Several of the family have had influenza.

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H. W. Bates’s paper; CD will review it. ["Mimetic butterflies" (1863), Collected papers 2: 87–92.]