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Thanks CD for Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31] and "Climbing plants" sent to Manchester Ladies’ Literary Society. Comments on Lythrum.
Asks CD whether he has given any thought to the phenomena of spiritualism.
On muscles in man for moving skin, hair, ears, etc.
Sends CD an English translation of his preface to the revised German edition of Origin and asks his opinion of it.
Asks CD where he might get a specimen of Eozoon.
Relieved that CD approves his declining the Presidency of BAAS. The BAAS and the role of scientific men in it.
H. T. Stainton should be elected F.R.S.
Protective role of colours in caterpillars and butterflies. Sexual differences in colours of butterflies.
Sends a copy [missing] of a lecture by L. Agassiz on glaciers.
Claims worker wasps can generate additional workers in the absence of the fertile female.
Vladimir Kovalevsky wishes to translate Variation into Russian. He offers £1 per advance sheet.
Male dotterels take care of young and are less brilliantly coloured than females.
He has promised Mark [coachman to R. W. Darwin and Susan] that CD will continue the payment of £20 a year after EAD’s death; the house is rent free.
Reports observations on fertility of orchids he has self-pollinated and crossed with pollen of other species.
On improving the educational system.
Has been hunting for an otter-hound for CD.
Hopes CD will visit his museum at the Horticultural [Society].
ARW responds to CD’s list of queries about expression. Suggests acquiring informants through publishing the queries in newspapers. His doubts about their importance.
Has submitted caterpillar question to Entomological Society.
Sexual ornamentation of insects: coloration of Epicalia genus [of tropical S. American butterflies];
horned genera of lamellicorn beetles [see Descent 1: 370, 388].
Wallace brought CD’s question about gay-coloured caterpillars before the Entomological Society. Members now seeking explanations.
Requests CD’s subscription to his On systematic botany and zoology [1870]. "Progressive development" is a leading principle of his work.
Has been persuaded to accept BAAS Presidency.
On Charles Naudin’s discovery of seeds of Chamaerops fertilised by the date-palm.
Thanks CD for permission to translate Variation into Russian. The translation will be guided by his brother Alexander, a follower of Darwin,
whose articles on the affinity of ascidians and vertebrates he forwards.
Sends several plants with abortive anthers or bad pollen.