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Returns [Fritz?] Müller’s work [probably Für Darwin (1864)]. It is a remarkable memoir.

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Has read abstract of JL’s paper ["On the present state of archaeological science", Athenæum 21 July 1866, pp. 79–82] and praises it.

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Returns Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].

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Anxious to make acquaintance of Ernst Haeckel [who was staying with CD].

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Asks JL to look up a paper by Thomas Hincks on Polyzoa or Bryozoa [Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 2d ser. 1 (1861): 278–81].

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JL’s brother-in-law [Robert Birkbeck] would like a note of introduction to John Murray.

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Encloses note of introduction to Murray.

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Asks for reference to Louis Agassiz’s views on embryos indicating ancestral structures.

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Discusses problems of obtaining money for the alteration of Down church.

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Encloses a statement and circular he has been asked to send to JL.

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Encloses a memorial concerning the Botanical Gardens at Kew signed by ‘some of our most eminent scientific men’ (including CD).

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CD wishes to acquire a piece of JL’s land.

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The land CD wants to buy probably belongs to his marriage-settlement and would thus be difficult to sell.

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Is willing to sell the land CD wants for £300.

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Thanks for JL’s willingness to sell land.

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Sends MS intended some day for the Viola tricolor section of Cross and self-fertilisation [pp. 123–8] to be used by JL in his British wild flowers (1875).

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Discusses insect attraction to artificial flowers. CD’s experiments of 40 years ago failed, but Nägeli reported success by scenting them.

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JL’s two articles in Nature ["Common wild flowers", 10 (1874): 402–6, 422–6].

Cautions against C. K. Sprengel’s notion of bees’ being deceived by nectarless nectary.

Colour of calyces.

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Asks JL to send ten shillings for the Down Friendly Club.

Has just read JL’s paper on bees and wasps [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 110–39]. Is astonished by their stupidity. The experiments on colour are especially good. Suggests JL examine their retinas; sends enclosure [missing] on eyes of reptiles and birds.

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Expresses concern about the "coolness" between CD and [G. S.] Ffinden in regard to the Infant School.