Comments on WM’s paper about ostrich feathers.

Thanks FS for his book [Kant und Darwin].

Sends regards to Haeckel.

Discusses revisions for Variation, 2d ed.

Discusses experiments involving graft-hybrids.

Alludes to Pangenesis.

Comments on GJR’s experiments.

Thanks SN for his explanation of vines.

Discusses SN’s observation on roots secreting carbonic acid.

Will propose GJR for membership in Linnean Society.

Discusses GJR’s grafting experiments.

CD is circulating certificate proposing GJR for membership in Linnean Society.

Discusses hybrid potatoes from Germany.

Mentions his appearance before Vivisection Commission.

Discusses his plans for planting and observing the carrots sent by GJR.

Mentions views of J. S. Burdon Sanderson on graft-hybrids.

Comments on GJR’s paper ["Instinct and acquisition", Nature 12 (1875): 553–4].

[Letter incorrectly dated "Thursday 8th" by CD.] [!? shd be note not synopsis]

Carrots have arrived; CD has potted them.

Communicates a paper by Lawson Tait to the Royal Society [not published by Royal Society, see 10452].

Suggests skin-grafting experiment on birds.

Discusses case of Edwin Ray Lankester; it has aroused his indignation.

Sends books.

Discusses GJR’s Pangenesis experiments; views of Galton on the theory.

Encloses list of errata in Insectivorous plants [1875] for the French translator.

Asks for copy of [unspecified] essay, but will not answer it.

Asks questions about earthworms.

CD’s observations [for Insectivorous plants] seem to indicate that the same species of Genlisea may bear two kinds of bladders, so he asks for rhizomes and leaves of three species to test this possibility.

Describes accounts of potato grafting in a German journal.

Discusses subscriptions for the Naples Zoological Station.

Thanks correspondent for article on CD in Gardeners’ Chronicle.

Discusses function of the eyebrows in protecting the eyes from sweat.

Mentions notices in the Nation.