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Responds to suggestions and criticisms CD made to "theory of heredity" [see 10245].
CD sends a draft bill which he helped to prepare relating to experiments on live animals; the Commissioners may wish to see it.
Climbing plants has sold better than he expected.
Thinks another 1000 of Origin may have to be printed; he has no corrections to make.
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Discusses his ambitions.
Writes of rats that gnaw through lead pipes to find water.
Does not doubt animals reason in a practical fashion. Do not the rats hear the water trickling?
Comments on FG’s paper ["The history of twins"].
CD is "in a passion with the Spectator who always muddles".
Apologises for troubling CD to look for his lost MS.
Suggests that, if HdV make further observations on tendrils, he attend to Echinocystis, as described on p. 132 of Climbing plants.
Thanks for Elementary biology [1875]. Wishes he had had a course like it.
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Mentions receipt of EH’s History of creation [1876].
Describes his own work on cross- and self-fertilised flowers. Subject bears on the very principle of life.
Gives an example of the power of reasoning shown by dogs.
CD cannot remember whether he was on the committee of the Jamaica affair [for prosecution of Governor Eyre in 1866] but he subscribed £10.
It is curious and amusing how positivists hate all men of science, possibly because their prophet [Comte] made laughable and gigantic blunders in predicting the course of science.
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