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Asked C. E. Bessey whether Lithospermum longiflorum was dimorphic like its relatives. Encloses CEB’s reply.
Sends "worm journal" – observations of earthworm activity at Abinger.
Messrs Clowes will make CD’s corrections and adjust index of Cross and self-fertilisation. Of this work only 1500 copies have been printed. Edition is sold out and account is enclosed.
Of 500 copies of Climbing plants [2d ed.] printed in June 1876, 450 were still unsold as of June 1877.
Asks if CD agrees with Carl Claus’s Grundzüge der Zoologie [3d ed. (1876)], in separating tunicates from molluscs.
Sends notes made in June 1867, on Rhamnus catharticus and R. lanceolatus. Encloses diagrams and measurements relating to pollen size in R. lanceolatus.
Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.
Discusses an experiment.
His dogs appear to have rabies.
Writes of his admiration for CD and requests an autograph or photo.
Notes and extracts relating to "bloom".
Action of heavy rain on the leaves of Robinia.
Wants Francis [Rhodes] Darwin’s address; also asks if CD has heard "the great news".
Remarks on the difference between the sexes in Restionaceae and other subjects – occasioned by reading the introduction [to Forms of flowers].
Introduces his son Casimir, who is visiting England.
Reports on his work. Relationships of shells found at Steinheim; attempts to elucidate the genesis of different forms.
TB is seeking a Government grant through the Royal Society so that he can give up his business and pursue his work on the glacial period; wants CD to support him with a note to Hooker.
Forwards letters.
Would like Price’s address.
Has "the missing link" been found in New Guinea, as he read in the newspaper?
Offers CD the nest of a foreign bird pressed on him by a neighbour.
TABS is pleased that CD found something of interest in his researches in Crete [Travels and researches in Crete (1869)].
Orchids [2d ed.] will soon be published.
1000 more copies of Descent [2d ed.] will soon have to be printed, so CD could send any alterations to be made in the plates.