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Observations on Coronilla.
Regrets that a cut [for Descent] does not do justice to TWW’s original drawing and if it cannot be improved then CD will have to omit it. [Refers to fig. 60 in Descent (1874).]
Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.
Sends old Japanese picture suggesting evolution, found by Charles Longfellow.
Is pleased to hear CD attended a séance [18 Jan 1874]; asks for his views about communication among spirits.
Is willing to sell the land CD wants for £300.
Thanks for JL’s willingness to sell land.
Hopes to visit CD during a stay in London.
Just back from Gold Coast.
Would like to become a member of the Royal Institution.
His gratitude for CD’s gift. An account of his difficulties with the Zoological Station and his health.
F. M. Balfour has told him that CD would like to see the question of complemental males in cirripedes studied again. AD would like to enter the field and to study the whole morphological development of cirripedes.
Describes the interest in embryological work in Russia and Germany.
C. V. Riley’s case of Pronuba moth and the fertilisation of Yucca, is the most wonderful case of fertilisation ever published [Am. Nat. 7 (1873): 619–23].
Is organising an appeal for the Naples Zoological Station.
Discusses illustrations for 2d edition of Descent.
"My nephew [Henry Parker] got into the Athenaeum with splendid success."
Has just read Journal of researches and has been charmed out of his anti-Darwinian prejudice.
Supplies evidence to the contrary of CD’s assertion in Expression that dogs do not eat carrion.
Offers to send mud-wasps.
Is glad to have Descent cheaper and sold more largely, but would be sorry to see it printed like the Origin. "The closeness of the lines is the great fault." Fears book might be very thick. "I hear scores of people complaining of the heavy and thick books which you publish."
On supernumerary mammae in a male patient.
On proportion of sexes in litters of greyhounds.
Sends his screed about the brain [for Descent], which he thinks pounds the enemy into a jelly.
Is in good health.