Encloses letter printed in the Toronto Globe about the discovery on Prince Edward Island of a skeleton of a tailed man.

Has had doctoral student [Alexander Fraustadt] working on the physiology and chemistry (i.e., chlorophyll and starch distribution) and comparative anatomy of Dionaea.

Thanks for response to query on what is an individual.

Sends paper on potatoes [see 10440].

A Dr Sarazin offers services as translator.

Will read CD’s letter about Robert Swinhoe to Royal Society Council and see what can be done for him.

Thanks for essay [Cras credemus: a treatise on the cultivation of the potato from the seed, having for proposed results the extinction of the disease (1876)] and seeds. Thinks principle on which JT is acting is right.

Cannot allow publication of his earlier letter [10368], as he cannot recall what he wrote.

Requests CD’s evaluation of the work of the entomologist Robert McLachlan, who is up for F.R.S. in competition with the physiologist A. H. Garrod.

McLachlan has as strong a claim to be F.R.S. as any entomologist, but Garrod’s work is of higher quality.

Lists the 14 men elected to be F.R.S. Garrod defeated McLachlan.

Thanks HB for obtaining a translation by a learned rabbi of [the Naphtali Lewy] letter – "a real curiosity". [See 10430.]

JT still thinks CD’s opinions on "what is an individual?" should be published.

Seeking financial backing for his research.

Gives advice on breeding of blight-resistant potatoes.

Queries about some references in Coral reefs and a list of misprints.

F. S. Holmes is welcome to examine his fish vertebrae.

Sends some potato plants and tubers.

Daughter Henrietta’s illness prevents a trip to London.

JT’s crossing experiments on potatoes. Attempts to develop resistance to Peronospora.

Sends a pamphlet for FD and Ruck, who did not turn up for breakfast.

Glaciation in the British Isles.

S. B. J. Skertchley’s researches on Palaeolithic man in England [Nature 14 (1876): 448–9].

The Society’s rejection of R. L. Tait’s paper on Nepenthes is a lesson which will last CD for his life. It is clear that he should not have sent it.

Thanks for CD’s assistance and his advice on crossing.