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Leon du Four's History of Prostitution and Darwin's Origin of Species. Two months spent in Ternate dealing with a year's mail, cleaning, arranging and packing collections of birds, insects and shells for shipment to England and preparing for further expeditions; paper on "The native trade with New Guinea" sent to the Geographical.
Plans to collect specimens in Java en route to Singapore and return from there to England; stores and baggage carried on previous expeditions; plans for work and accommodation on return to England.
Ascent of a volcano, vegetation at the peak similar to English weeds, tropical on the lower slopes; comparative beauty of English and tropical plants; Dutch collectors for Leyden Museum; letter (not present) to be taken to Stevens with instructions re. ARW's specimens.
Bates' paper on Papilios; Darwinian philosophy, geographical distribution of species, rivers as limits to distribution, ARW's Zoological Society paper on distribution of monkey species in Brazil; isolation of species from geographical origins, geological evidence; hopes Bates will write on Cicindelidae; collecting in Sumatra; plans to return to England.
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Refers to Bates' admiration of ARW.
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