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Thanks FD for corrections [to Orchids (1877)].
Thinks Johann von Fischer’s paper on monkeys’ rumps [Der Zoologische Garten 17 (1876): 116–27, 174–9] worth translating, and he intends to write a letter on it to Nature [Collected papers 2: 207–11].
Can CD send sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation as previously promised? OZ writing article on subject ["Darwin über Kreuzung und Selbstbefruchtung im Pflanzenreiche", Das Ausland (1877)].
German Darwinists preparing a Darwin album with photographs of themselves as gift.
Sorry the corrections were so tedious, and offers to do revises.
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Drosera plants grown with insects excluded have developed normally.
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He has never observed the straight line flight routes in male humble-bees that CD reports.
His last letter was in error: alpine Bombus terrestris does break into some flowers.
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Sends an article for FD.
Is glad he is able to work on his teasel paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1878): 4–8]; suggests some observations FD could make.
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Thanks for papers and letter; has been working in the mornings on teasel.
Sending specimens of Drosera grown without insects.
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Discusses views of [Alexander James] Maule on potatoes.
Discusses graft-hybrids.
Asks for reference to an article on a mandrill.
Forwards a flower from a Mrs Crawshay, who sees its "evident struggle to become double as another instance of gradual evolution".
Has seen notice on Empetrum but cannot understand how leaves in bud could act as fly-catchers.
Would like sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation if it is not already out.
His brother, George, reports from Calcutta a case of a man whose hands are divided like a cow’s foot.