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Thanks CD for his opinion on egging. Despite the intensity of the practice sufficient eggs always remain to carry on the breed.
Reports the balloting [for Henry Parker at the Athenaeum?] went off just right.
Relates the case of a woman from the Caucasus whose hair would frequently stand on end and who later went insane.
Thanks for MS which he intends to read while on a week’s holiday.
Sends thanks for Francis Darwin’s offer of help and says that Francis’s experiments on digestion are complete.
"Half an answer" to CD’s query on visit of Sphinx to Hedychium gardnerianum.
Business affairs and family ill health keep him busy.
G. J. Allman will succeed Bentham as President of Linnean Society. Busk has refused.
Huxley is well.
JDH has indoctrinated Sir Stafford Northcote with his merits.
Lyell frail.
Old J. E. Gray goes on publishing.
"Is not [Thomas] Belt splendid!"
On EA’s persecution by new government for liberal–republican position of his Revues; threat to remove him from Faculté de Droit, unless he renounces relations with Revues or changes their politics.
Has reviewed CD’s Orchids.
Sends results of experiments on digestion. Encloses two sets of notes: "Experiments on the digestibility of certain preparations sent by Mr Darwin" and "Note for Mr Darwin" [marked by CD for insertion in ch. 6 of Insectivorous plants].
His note on brain [in man and apes for 2d ed. of Descent] nearly finished.
Has heard nothing about Dohrn.
THH has been invited to lecture in America.
Sends old Japanese picture suggesting evolution, found by Charles Longfellow.
Is pleased to hear CD attended a séance [18 Jan 1874]; asks for his views about communication among spirits.
Is willing to sell the land CD wants for £300.
Hopes to visit CD during a stay in London.
His gratitude for CD’s gift. An account of his difficulties with the Zoological Station and his health.
F. M. Balfour has told him that CD would like to see the question of complemental males in cirripedes studied again. AD would like to enter the field and to study the whole morphological development of cirripedes.
Describes the interest in embryological work in Russia and Germany.
Just back from Gold Coast.
Would like to become a member of the Royal Institution.
Is organising an appeal for the Naples Zoological Station.
Has just read Journal of researches and has been charmed out of his anti-Darwinian prejudice.
Observations on Coronilla.
Supplies evidence to the contrary of CD’s assertion in Expression that dogs do not eat carrion.
Offers to send mud-wasps.
On supernumerary mammae in a male patient.
On proportion of sexes in litters of greyhounds.
Sends his screed about the brain [for Descent], which he thinks pounds the enemy into a jelly.
Is in good health.