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Thanks for facts on inheritance. May be used if CD corrects 3d ed. [2d ed.] of Variation.

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"You are most perfectly welcome to Fragmenta [F. J. H. von Mueller Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae (1858–64)], & I shall be delighted if they are of the slightest use to you."

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Glad BDW has proved his case on dimorphism of Cynips.

Interested in galls

and BDW’s Cicada articles [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia (1864)].

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Oliver overlooked CD’s request about rutaceous flowers. Of precisely which points about the ovules does CD want illustrations?

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John Lubbock regrets GHD did not take the Eton post. JL thinks scientific masters will soon occupy places as high and as profitable as classical masters.

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Takes "much to heart" solar evidence for short age of the earth. Cites evidence for "long endurance of our existing continents". Comments on process of denudation.

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"My experiment was intended solely to show that colour reappeared, and I choose kinds which breed [true] to colour, as is certainly the case with [sports] and those which I tried . . .

I have recorded an undoubted case of wild rock Pigeons caught in Scotland having bred in confinement …"

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Horned rams of Guinea sheep.

CD’s queries about expression are too difficult for him to answer.

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Sends information from a Kent sheep-breeder.

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"I enclose a note from Lord Fitzwilliam about his horse with zebra-marks. The case seems as striking as I believed."

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Has written to Moscow about translations of Origin. Wishes to translate additions to the fifth English edition and print them as a supplement.

Pleased by CD’s high opinion of Alexander Kovalevsky.

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A list of investments presumably belonging to CD.

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Describes the novelties found on his recent expedition to South America sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution.

Wants to dedicate to CD book [The Andes and the Amazon (1870)] which is modelled on Journal of researches.

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Receiving notes on inbreeding from T. T. Wright, who has long experience with the subject.

Reports six-toed pup.

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Thanks SN for the trouble he has taken for him [on Lapland reindeer horns].

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Asks JVC to ascertain the age at which merino rams develop horns, and whether they grow faster or more slowly than in other breeds of sheep in which both sexes have horns.

Asks how JVC’s translation [of Variation] has sold.

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Discusses the development of horns in reindeer and other deer.

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Planning to visit Gibraltar and Morocco. Is there anything he can do for CD?

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Apologises for having kept JC’s book so long; would like to keep it about ten days more.

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Writing to friends on CD’s behalf about deer: T. T. Wright, Archibald McNeill.