On why it is said Indian elephants do not breed in captivity; mating habits of male so violent as to require restraint.

Asks CD what prompts dogs of all kinds to roll themselves in decayed animal matter; inherited habit or immediate gratification?

Thanks CD for letter of 3 Oct [missing] about LB’s publication.

Discusses arrangements for American edition of Variation.

Observations on apparently inherited instinct in a dog.

Has seen CD’s "carte" offered for sale.

Has “several times noticed eight permanent incisors instead of six in the jaw [of the horse]”.

Answers for father, who is ill, on difference between manes of stallions and mares.

Asks CD for memorandum giving his opinion on a proposal to move the site of the Calcutta Botanic Garden. Gives details of the position, the physical character and the climate of the present site to show how desirable a move would be.

C[harles?] P[arker?] says he has made a "fearful mistake", and the marriage cannot be; EAD hopes to come to CD next week.

Reversion of tamed animals to wild behaviour.

Crying and the action of the orbicularis.

Recommends J. Scott’s paper on crossing varieties of Verbascum.

Beginning of extract from William Dell Hartman’s "Journal of the doings of Cic[ada?] septemdecim" [unidentified] in Pennsylvania in 1851.

Notes on sexual differences within certain species of birds.

Pairing habits of birds: polygamy among ducks and canaries.

Information on the proportion of sexes in fowls and other birds.

Thanks CD for his photograph.

Intends to start experimenting with mosses to determine which differences in structure are effected by altered conditions of life.

Expresses his gratification on reading of Leonard Darwin’s high placing on the Sandhurst list.

Reports making graft-hybrid potatoes.

Has found direct action of pollen in Mays [Zea] crosses and apple-trees.

F. Delpino has asked for CD’s address.

CD has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Biology Section of the Académie Impériale des Sciences, St Petersburg.

Discusses mule canaries which show a tendency to revert to wild plumage colours.