JL’s article on Huxley’s "Lectures [to working men]".
Planning a volume of essays [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Has obtained microscopes for CD.
Wishes to borrow volumes 1 and 3 of Narrative [vol. 1 by Capt. P. P. King, vol. 3 by CD].
Congratulates CD on receiving the Copley Medal.
About buying shares.
Vexed at the address of the President of the Royal Society [on award of Copley medal to CD].
The Copley medal. Sabine’s Presidential Address and Huxley’s response.
JL’s MS at printer’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Apologises for failure to post letter.
JL’s book [Prehistoric times (1865)] is "most original".
Wishes him success in politics.
Delighted at CD’s praise of his book [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Returns [Fritz?] Müller’s work [probably Für Darwin (1864)]. It is a remarkable memoir.
Has read abstract of JL’s paper ["On the present state of archaeological science", Athenæum 21 July 1866, pp. 79–82] and praises it.
Returns Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Anxious to make acquaintance of Ernst Haeckel [who was staying with CD].
Asks JL to look up a paper by Thomas Hincks on Polyzoa or Bryozoa [Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 2d ser. 1 (1861): 278–81].
JL’s brother-in-law [Robert Birkbeck] would like a note of introduction to John Murray.
Encloses note of introduction to Murray.
H. T. Stainton should be elected F.R.S.
Discusses the practice of exogamy; asks if any animals have an instinctive repugnance to inbreeding.
Close inbreeding and factors acting against it.