Observations on expression and colour of beard and hair in natives of India.

Observations on expression and variation in Asian peoples: when colour of beard and hair differ, beard is always lighter. Differences in swimming strokes. Polydactylism.

Has just sent Hooker a paper on Sikkim tree-ferns [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 30 (1875): 1–44, read 1870].

Has had fever since the end of the rains.

JS should not consider repaying CD; the money was a gift, not a loan.

JS’s information on expression is the best he has received.

Is resuming the study of worm-casts as he believes they will bear on the denudation of land. Requests specific information on the relative number, size, and manner of deterioration of worm-casts in India.

Describes habits of worms.

Discusses Leersia experiments.

JS’s valuable observations on worms in India along with Asa Gray’s in the United States confirm CD’s opinion that worms work in the same way all over the world. Requests further information on the subject.

Acknowledges a box of worm-casts from India and a bottle of worms in spirits. There is no memorandum.

His book on expression is finished and includes valuable information from JS.

Acting as Superintendent of Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.

Observations on worm-castings in India.

Acknowledges JS’s excellent letter of 25 September. May CD assume that the gigantic worm-casts were nearly circular when measured before the rain?

That a medical man should always have the place of superintendent seems a piece of jobbery.

Mentions [George] King.

JS’s thin paper renders some words on other side almost illegible.

Thanks Hooker and Darwin for the money to emigrate to India to work.

CD too unwell to read. JS should not send Primula paper MS until CD returns home.

JS’s MS [of Primula paper] arrived, but CD is too ill to read it.

CD has sent JS’s paper on orchid sterility to Botanische Zeitung and to Hooker.

Regrets CD’s poor health.

"Do not return Primula MS."

CD agrees about reversion.

The discovery of crossing in cryptogams is very interesting.

CD thinks JS’s Primula paper is fit for publication; he will send it on to the Linnean Society.