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Wishes to borrow third part of Fritz Müller’s article on sexual selection in butterflies [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 218–24].
Is forwarding material on stridulation, including Prof. Wood-Mason’s paper ["Note on Mygale stridulans", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1877): 281–2], which should interest CD.
Thanks correspondent for note and specimen; they will be of use in new edition of Forms of flowers.
Comments on discovery of micro-organisms in disease.
Describes experiments carried out by Francis Darwin on filaments of Dipsacus.
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The portrait of Erasmus Darwin by Wright of Derby has been dispatched.
Is dispatching December number of Kosmos.
Will read the discussion on stridulation that RM mentioned.
Sends cutting on origin of variety of merino sheep.
Would like references to works on breeding.
Discusses dates when he might meet the prince (Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria) in London, or perhaps the Prince might visit Down.
Cites language books; a comparison of them shows unity of language.
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Asks about the composition of a spermaceti ointment which he has been buying for some years "because I blackened some young shoots of plants with this ointment mixed with Lamp-black & it produced an extraordinary effect on the shoots, which I think cannot be accounted for merely by the exclusion of light".
Constituents of spermaceti ointment supplied to CD. Perhaps effect was caused by substance used to bleach the bees-wax.
LD’s chemical analysis of lamp-black.
Has been testing lamp-black for ammonia.
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Thinks there can be no objection to RM’s using a Fritz Müller letter [see 11319].