Congratulations on election to the French Academy of Sciences, Botany Section.

Congratulations on CD’s long-overdue election to the French Academy of Sciences.

Acknowledges his election as a Corresponding Member of the Academy.

The secretary of the Comision de Propaganda of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, Madrid, asks CD to send list of his publications to the Society.

Discourses on the rights of animals.

Gives results of recently completed survey of islands in the Seychelle group mentioned in Coral reefs, 2d ed., pp. 243–4.

Instructs FD to plant some Oxalis seeds.

Wishes to trace the movement of an old cotyledon. Asks him to examine and compare the pulvinus of a species which moves its cotyledon greatly with one of a species that moves it only moderately.

Are the tendrils ready for heliotropic experiment yet?

CD made an honorary member of the Royal Society for Medical and Natural Sciences of Brussels.

He and Emma rejoice that GHD’s mathematical troubles are at an end. It is miraculous that he unconsciously followed the right course – like composing a sonata by a fluke.

Crossing experiments with common and Chinese geese. Offers CD geese if he wishes to repeat experiments.

Contraction of plant roots.

Is glad WO is undertaking the editing of Anton Kerner’s book [Schutzmittel der Blüthen gegen unberufene Gäste (1876)], which appears to open out "highly original & curious fields of research". [Used as prefatory letter to Kerner, Flowers and their unbidden guests, The translation revised and edited by W. Ogle (1878).]

Instructions to sow some seeds

and suggestions for experiment on effects of removal of bloom.

Likes Hugo de Vries very much; has hardly ever seen so modest a man.

Asks FD to reply to a letter [11653a] requesting a list of CD’s books.

Sends pamphlet.

Thanks CD for his reply.

Is gratified by EV’s "spirited and able defence" in the article printed in La France [26 April 1878].

Thanks for letter on ALA’s qualifications for vacant chair of natural history.

Reports observations on deer which have larger left antlers than right, possibly for protection of heart.

His son, the Serbian translator of the Origin, has died.

Describes observations and experiments on the response to light of Bignonia capreolata tendrils.