Has signed certificates.

His specimen catalogue has not been returned from Cambridge museum. If not lost, will answer query.

Discusses spider specimens.

Pigeons’ skins dispatched today.

Sends MS about pigeons.

Thanks AG for his kind note and returns his good wishes.

Anxious that AG should consider a memorial [for A. R. Wallace]. Makes arrangements to avoid delay.

Sends memorial [for A. R. Wallace] for AG to sign. Asks whether AG will forward it to Owen; CD cannot send it as he has not spoken to him for 20 years.

Has signed and returned memorial [for Wallace]; does not know where to find Owen.

Asks how he can obtain a Museum post for his late brother’s butler, F. W. Surman.

Explains how to go about getting an attendantship at the British Museum.

Discusses position [at British Museum]. "My case is hopeless as my man [F. W. Surman] is 31 years old."

Reports on the snakes he collected in the Galapagos.

Discusses transport of fish to Lake Constance by flooding.

Sends his photograph.

Asks for any information of well-marked sexual differences in snakes, batrachians, or lizards. The rattlesnakes at the Zoological Garden differ considerably in colour.

Sexual differences in reptiles, especially Indian [see A. Günther, The reptiles of British India (1864)].

The Cyprinodontidae family of fishes exhibits sexual differences as remarkable as any in reptiles or birds [Descent 2: 7, 9–10].

Thanks AG for information.

Asks AG for details of variation in patterning of the banded snake.

Sends proofs of his fish paper.

Will observe modification of colour in fish.

Is studying the development of the axolotl.

Encloses notes in reply to CD’s queries on fishes.