Comments on GJR’s article on hybridisation.

Recommends his article ["Fertility and hybrids from the Chinese and common goose", Collected papers 2: 219–20].

Discusses crosses of Lythrum.

Murray’s must reprint Descent. Does CD want to make any corrections in the plates?

ARC found a frog in New Zealand; contradicts CD [in Origin, 6th ed. (1872), p. 350.]

Wonders whether CD can explain why white muscat grapes growing between two black grapevines have started turning black on ripening but retain the muscat flavour.

Although he cannot use the Neapolitan work, his respect for the service to science rendered by the Zoological Station at Naples leads him to subscribe.

Thanks CD for receiving the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union’s deputation.

BJS’s case is one of the direct action of the pollen of one variety on the mother plant of another variety. Gives references to analogous cases.

Receiving deputation gave CD pleasure.

Thanks for copy of W. O. Focke [Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge (1881)].

Has nearly finished paper on locomotor system in echinoderms.

Is obliged for the clear answers to his queries.

Regrets that his health will not permit a visit to Wroxeter.

Will sign his name on next page, but "what geese people are about autographs".

Comments on CD’s book [Movement in plants].

Continues with his experiments with ripple-marks.

Is in despair about his astronomy.

Behaviour of pigeons is now different from that described in Beresbith Raba, a 3d century gloss on Genesis.

Expresses doubts that pigeons could rest one wing during flight.

Glad GHD goes on with ripple-marks; if he makes out a theory of ripples, they might give important information about the most ancient deposits.

CD has been wonderfully glorified in the Times [review of Movement in plants, 20 Nov 1880].

Some sheets [of Movement in plants] are missing. Is delighted with its "lesson of methods of observation patience and thought".

Likes appearance [of Movement in plants].

The Times review should sell a few more copies.

Thanks Murray for present of volumes by Charles St John [A tour in Sutherlandshire, 2 vols. (1849?)].

Thanks for Movement in plants.

Condolences on S. E. Wedgwood’s death.

A laudatory reference in the Times [19 Nov 1880, p. 4] impels her to write after many years. Hopes to see him.

Thanks for book [Movement in plants].

The use of earthquakes as a geological cause in his previous letter was careless.

Shelly beach deposits over considerable distance from Ireland to Scotland seem better explained by high sea-level than low land.

Only CD seems to have reported shattered rocks under the Moel Tryfan drift.