Thanks for note of 13 May and tracings of the "curious Bopyrid".

Is astonished at amount of work JDD does and frightened it will cause ill-health, such as CD has experienced.

Asks EL to request the Council [of the Ray Society] to permit him to have nine plates [for vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia] instead of eight (of which two were to be in colour) and a tenth plate if he pays for it himself.

Reports the state of Anne Darwin’s health.

Reports on Anne’s illness.

Reports on Anne’s condition.

Detailed account of progress of Anne’s illness.

Reports on Anne’s health throughout the night and from 8 a.m. through to 4.30 p.m.

Asks FW to come over to feel his daughter’s pulse.

Further reports on Anne’s illness.

An evening report on Annie Darwin’s somewhat improved condition.

Tells of Anne’s death.

Arrangements for leaving Malvern after death of Anne.

Is glad he returned home to be with Emma, and is grateful to Fanny for following Anne to the grave.

Thanks for her sympathy on the death of Annie Darwin, and sends news of Emma Darwin and the baby Horace.

Asks to borrow woodcut from Palaeontographical Society for use in Living Cirripedia, vol. 1.

Finds he needs four woodcuts for the introduction [to vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia], which calls for quick action. Will send entire MS by the end of the month.

Will bring MS [of vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia] on the last day of July, and proofs of the eight plates now engraved will be sent soon. CD has failed to get materials for the one coloured plate he wanted, so none will be in colour. There will be ten altogether. He will ask later whether he must pay for the extra one. G. B. Sowerby Jr comes next day to complete drawings for two not yet engraved.

Asks EL whether he should use both Latin and English descriptions of specific characters [in vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia].

Sends completed MS [vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia] with instructions for the printers; reviews number of plates and woodcuts, and offers to pay for extras and for excess corrections, if they occur. Hopes the Council [of the Ray Society] will print his second volume at the end of the ensuing year.

CD returns home Saturday and would like his servant to take his MS [of Living Cirripedia] to Adlard that morning; he does not have a copy and would on no account re-undergo the labour he has spent on it.