Does not know Dr Mahoney.

Thanks CD for offer of photographs.

His mother’s health is no worse.

Asks BR to make two drawings of dogs to show expressions. Discusses expressions of hostile dog and caressing dog.

His analysis and explanation of the fact, observed by Charles Bell, that the eyeballs are turned upwards and inwards when consciousness begins to fail.

Thanks for "Literatur & Tables zur Descendenz Theorie" [check title!?] taken from his Die Darwin’sche Theorie [1871], which CD had read with gratification some time before.

Testimonial letter. JM would be well fitted for the Chair of General and Comparative Physiology of the Royal Veterinary College.

Thanks for vines and for all the information given him. Fears experiment will be more difficult than he had expected.

Thanks for sending translation of A. W. Malm’s paper ["On flatfishes", K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. N. F. 7 (1867–8) no. 4]; thinks it establishes that eye migrates across surface of head rather than through the skull.

Considers the relationship between direction of locomotion and the presence of stalked eyes in Crustacea.

Encloses a letter from Mr Moran, conveyed by Mr Lawrence.

Will attempt to draw the two expressions CD wants.

Sends preface of his book [see 8241]; he acknowledges debt to CD, but does not claim to have given a correct exposition of Darwinism.

Discusses Mivart’s reply ["Genesis of species", North Am. Rev. 114 (1872): 451–68] to CW’s review and to Huxley.

Asks whether CD knows anyone to whom he could usefully send a copy of his phyllotaxy paper [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].

Thanks for kindness. BR must not think of trying until he feels inclination and strength for task.

Comments on AW’s work [Einfluss der Isolierung (1872)].

Discusses formation of local races.

Conchologist should investigate whether species of same genus vary during successive geological periods.

Comments on Franz Hilgendorf ["Über Planorbis multiformis", Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 474–504].

Believes sexual selection will be judged a powerful agency.

Reports and asks questions about the offspring from the purported pairing of a woman with an ape.

Delighted to have cloud of darkness removed by CW’s paper on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].

Has heard that Mivart will answer CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].

Thanks correspondent for an interesting paper [unspecified] and his kind remarks about CD’s work.

CD had forgotten Auguste Comte’s "striking observations" on relations of man to lower animals.

Thanks FCD for information, which will make him "strike out a good deal".

Has received German pamphlet.

Will read work by John Soelberg Wells [? A treatise on the diseases of the eye (1869, 1870)].

Discusses his work on expression.

Asks to borrow "Sölberg Wells, Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye 1869" referred to by F. C. Donders.

Wild plants that live at the edges of civilisation, e.g., forest flowers growing on grazed land, are always reduced in size.

Responds to GdeS’s comments on Descent [see 8246]. Cannot give up belief in close relationship of man to higher Simiae.