On behaviour of birds when frightened and when threatening.

Purple Cytisus grafted onto yellow stock produces some yellow flowers.

Mutations in rabbits.

Cites case of variegated leaf form of one plant apparently spreading to a neighbour.

[William Rathbone] Greg is author [of "Failure of ""natural selection"" in the case of man", Fraser’s Magazine 78 (1868): 353–62].

Comments on findings in J. M. Duncan [Fecundity, fertility, sterility and allied topics (1866)].

Saw A. D. Bartlett about monkeys.

Encloses seeds from Fritz Müller, of a species of Passiflora, fertilised by a humble-bee.

Asks whether JDH can send seeds of Hibiscus africanus and of Nolana prostrata raised at Kew.

Draws CD’s attention to a paper in American Naturalist [3 (1869): 109] describing honey-bees killed by entanglement in pollen-masses of Asclepias.

On birds erecting feathers.

Comments on production of buds in Cytisus.

Discusses case of rabbit-breeding which affected subsequent progeny of female.

Has procured a Passiflora flower at last. Structure suited for humming-birds rather than bees.

Thanks WWR for information on the Nehro idea of beauty and other facts relating to expression.

Congratulates BJS on his K.C.B.

In autumn he will publish a book partly on man [Descent], which he expects "many will decry as very wicked".

Thinks the success of the Tierra del Fuego mission is wonderful.

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