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Gives Carl Claus’s identifications of the organisms sent by CD.
Comments on his Flora fossilis Arctica [vol. 3 (1875)]. Discusses successive appearance of plant families in geological periods. Relates plant development to rise of herbivorous mammals.
Comments on death of Charles Lyell.
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent, 2d ed.
Sends two treatises which explain cell-wall formation and some aspects of cell growth in physico-chemical terms ["Experimente zur Theorie d. Zellenbildung und Endosmose", Arch. Anat. Physiol. (1867): 87–128, 126–65].
CD’s Descent.
Fighting among beetles.
Similarity between dogs and men; intelligence of dogs.
Has found the relation of pollen-grain size to style size in Primula to be the opposite of CD’s view; asks whether there is an error or just remarkable variation.
Purpose of bushy tails; their usefulness to their owners as a means of keeping warm.
Is glad CD is pleased with his book [Cave hunting (1874)].
Relationship between language and race. The Basques.
Uses of tails of mice. Functions of tails generally.
Reports an Araujia in Portugal that captures various insects on the horns of its stigma. Relates this to another asclepiad, Apocynum, which also captures insects. Is this "insectivory" or insect fertilisation?
No action on assistance yet, but has had a private note from Disraeli asking whether Thiselton-Dyer is his recommendation.
Sends a short essay [The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries (1874)] on which he would welcome CD’s opinion. Believes problems of pathology can be attacked by regarding them from "Darwinian" point of view.
A curious alteration in the reprint of Variation.
Suggests advantage to students of adding coloured drawings of the coral-producing zoophytes in next edition of Coral reefs.
Thanks for reference concerning regeneration of human fingers and toes.
Sends lecture on language.
Asks for information about animal communication by vocal sounds.
He will write to Portugal for the insect-capturing Araujia.
Sends CD a cheque for 68 guineas – his two-thirds share of profit on sale of 2000 copies of 2d edition of Descent.