"Earthworms are hermaphrodite, but two must unite & both produce eggs.–– I have seen hundreds coupled, early in the morning & occasionally during the night.––"

Sends manuscript by Baron de Villa Franca on the apparent grafting of sugar canes.

Requests snake poison for experiment.

Encloses paper [by W. Van Dyck] for publication by the Zoological Society ["On Syrian street dogs", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1882): 367–70].

Thanks HG for specimen of Mitella.

CD has tried effects of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll grains, but his observations are hardly trustworthy. He finds stooping over the microscope affects his heart.

Edmond Perrier of Paris would be pleased to receive earthworms collected in Venezuela.

CD fears that he exaggerated the importance of worms in forming ledges on hillsides [see Earthworms, p. 278 ff.].

Very anxious that WTVD’s essay [on Syrian street dogs, see 13710] should be published. Has sent it to Zoological Society with a few introductory remarks [see 13753].

Thanks for his Catalogue of the Chilean plants.

Sends signature.

Sends his birth date.

Cannot contribute article to new journal [Field Naturalist and Scientific Student]. Writes only to communicate new facts.

Adds to his previous subscription for the Rolleston Memorial Fund.

Hopes HNM’s position at Oxford is satisfactory.

Requests seeds of Solanum rostratum.

Fritz Müller believes that in plants with anthers of different colours, bees collect from one set alone.

Suggests JET send copy of paper ["Flowers of Solanum rostratum and Cassia chamaecrista", Am. Nat. 16 (1882): 281–7] to Müller.

Remembers signing cards but they must have been lost in the post. Sends signature.

Corrects WW’s misunderstanding of passage about habit of dogs in burying food [see Expression: 44].

Sends a contribution to a fund for a portrait of William Cavendish, 7th duke of Devonshire, chancellor of Cambridge University.

Thinks that "women though generally superior to men [in] moral qualities are inferior intellectually". Believes that men and women may have been aboriginally equal in this respect but that to regain equality women would have to "become as regular ""bread-winners"" as are men". Suspects the education of children and "the happiness of our homes" would greatly suffer in that case.

Dismisses report of cat–rabbit hybrid.

Testifies to F. W. Surman’s good character and honesty.

Offering to send a copy of Kosmos containing a short review of her Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart. (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881).