Thanks for congratulations on George’s attaining Second Wrangler.

George will try for a fellowship at Trinity.

CD believes real education begins after school days.

Two queries on teeth: 1. Is there evidence of inherited peculiarities in milk teeth?

2. Are male incisors longer than female?

Recommends papers on Styrian Cave insects and American cave animals.

Discusses deduction from bill for medicine.

Asks for information about JC’s essay, "On the relation of the domesticated animals to civilisation" [read at BAAS meeting 1859].

Promises to send coral specimens.

Thanks TCE for telling him of his crossed pigs. When they are grown, he would like to know whether they resemble each other.

Doubts the half-bred Gallus sonnerati will be productive, though he was assured many years ago that such a fertile half-breed once occurred.

Arrangements to dine at JDH’s club.

Regrets he does not have pedigree of CL’s "pretty pony", but assures him information was very useful, "more especially as it confirms what I heard from Norway & did not know whether fully to believe".

Thanks for facts on inheritance. May be used if CD corrects 3d ed. [2d ed.] of Variation.

"… Mr Herbert Spencer. I will call tomorrow about half past 12".

Discusses exchange of photographs with Édouard Claparède, "for whom I feel the highest respect".

CD’s plans have changed. He will be in London the following week and therefore able to call on correspondent.

Requests priced samples of paper for mounting dried plants.

Sends his thanks for a kind letter; he has copied out the last sentence of the Origin.

Did not think anyone would notice case of Lathyrus.

Recalls reading correspondent’s paper on great fir woods of Hampshire.

Thanks for photograph.

Glad correspondent’s paper went well.

Poor health and much work forces CD to be brief.

Wishes to know the correct name for the British Museum’s specimen of an Abyssinian wolf described by Wilhelm Rueppell, Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien [1835–40] .

Has reread JDH’s paper ["On the functions of the rostellum of Listera ovata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 144 (1854): 259–64].

Difficulty of distinguishing varieties and species. Did HCW suggest a printed list that might help?

Polymorphic genera.