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Sends "squib" he has written exposing the folly of some of Louis Agassiz’s ideas. AG cannot "fire off [his] cracker" in U. S. so sends it to amuse CD. If it is sent to Nature, CD must not give AG’s name. [See "Survival of the fittest", Nature 7 (1873): 404].
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Sends a paper on behaviour he has observed in ants.
Additional errata in Descent.
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Winter in Duluth.
HAH is leaning toward spiritualism.
Limit of natural and sexual selection.
Has been around the world three times.
Praises TWH’s Army life in a black regiment [1870]. CD always thought well of Negroes, and is delighted to have his impressions confirmed.
CD answers a question about the attitude of foreign naturalists towards Darwinism by distinguishing between the belief in evolution and belief in natural selection. Gives the views of [Louis] Agassiz, [R. A.] Kölliker, [C. W.] Nägeli, [Ernst] Häckel, [C. F. W.] Claus, [F. J.] Cohn, Alphonse de Candolle, [J. L.] Claparède, Asa Gray, Gaston de Saporta, [E. D.] Cope, and [Carl] Gegenbaur.
Hopes JC-B thinks that CD has properly acknowledged his debt in Expression.
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Sends his book [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]. Hopes CD will publish an opinion of it.
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