Thanks for facts on inheritance. May be used if CD corrects 3d ed. [2d ed.] of Variation.

An article in North British Review by mathematician against Hooker and Huxley and for William Thomson [P. G. Tait, "Geological time", North Br. Rev. 50 (1869): 406–39]. Feels a conviction that world will be found older than reviewer makes it.

Article on "Design" [by J. B. Mozley] in Quarterly Review [127 (1869): 134–76].

Has JDH studied Drosophyllum?

Forwards letter from W. B. Dawkins. The bones, though not themselves interesting, may indicate the work of prehistoric man.