Thanks for mentioning CarlVogt, to whom he will write.

Comments on Dr Erasmus Darwin’s interest in mental imagery.

Invites FG to lunch.

Reports observations of worms for CD’s use.

Discusses dead earthworms on surface of ground after rainfall.

Describes experiments involving sensitivity of earthworms to light and how it reflects on their intelligence.

Asks for return of letter from J. P. Bishop about hair turning grey at an early age in three generations.

Thanks CD for Earthworms and comments on it.

Can FG call on Monday evening?

Sends enclosure [missing].

Thanks CD for an article [unspecified].

Invites FG to visit.

FG’s volume on his African expedition [Narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa (1853)] stimulates CD to express his admiration and to hope their acquaintance can be renewed.

Describes his health and life at Down.

Thanks for FG’s note and trouble in searching out pigeons.

Is obliged to FG for obtaining C. J. Andersson’s offer of information about breeds of cattle in South Africa.

Sends on CD’s list of enquiries about native breeds of animals in South Africa.

Thanks FG for book [The art of travel (1855)].

Is looking for a house in London for a month.

Discusses how Fuegians and other primitive peoples light fires.

Encloses signed document.

"Much interested about all domestic animals of all savage nations."

Congratulates CD on Origin; has been "initiated into an entirely new province of knowledge".

Notes error involving rhinoceros.

Encloses other notes.

Thanks FG for comments [on Origin].

Acknowledges error involving rhinoceros.

Thinks female fowls select victorious or most beautiful cock.

Does FG know Mansfield Parkyns well enough to submit query to him? [Probably about domestication of Columba guinea in Abyssinia. See Variation 1: 183.]

Can FG use his influence with Rev. [Erhardt] to get information about domesticated poultry in Africa for CD?