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Sends drawings of atypical Geranium and honeysuckle pollen-grains. Would they produce variation in seedlings?

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"I have received a very large box full of beautiful tea from Russia yesterday … my life is as regular & monotonous as a clock.

I make sure, but wofully slow progress, with my new book."

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Jury of fox-hunters report on hounds’ behaviour when catching fox. Fox never behaves like frightened dog.

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Sends CD some Indian corn seeds to demonstrate the extreme effect sometimes producible on progeny by the mutilation of a parent.

Writes of a recent book.

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Sets a time for CD to call.

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Sends a translation of two sentences [on floral structure] as requested by Henrietta Darwin.

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Sends 2d ed. of his Essays on physiological subjects (1869).

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Discovery of skull of "River-bed" race of man near Corwen.

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Suggests time for AA to visit.

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Criticises chapter on good effect of crossing in Variation: (1) does not accept that inbreeding alone results in degeneracy; (2) good effects of crossing exaggerated; (3) denies deleterious effects of close marriage in humans.

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Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.

Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.

Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].

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Thanks for drawing. ‘The "Woolnerian tip" is worth anything to me.’

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Asks for figures of embryos by A. Ecker and T. L. W. Bischoff to copy [for Descent, ch. 1].

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Sends enclosure [a letter from Lady Lyell?]. He is choking with vanity.

Is going to send Willy to Mr La Touche in Salop; he brought up young Colenso and Frank Lyell. Some of his friends will think he is sending his son into a nest of young adders!

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CD has already agreed that Julius Victor Carus will translate his next book.

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Sends a cheque to clear FD’s debts. Hopes he will be more careful in the future.

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Ask whether CD would like to subscribe again to National Education League. Describes the League’s goals.

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Is leaving tonight for Genoa;

sends a French paper [not identified].

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Requests CD write in support of Government pension for her husband, George Cupples.

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Sends CD "L’applicazione della teoria Darwiniana ai fiori ed agli insetti visitatori dei fiori" [Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 2 (1870)]. Continues to support vitalism and teleology.