Thanks correspondent for information about a dog.

Thanks correspondent for item of criticism in a foreign newspaper.

Thanks for his election to the Austrian Imperial Academy.

Is sorry ES has suffered in health.

Comments on MF’s "little essay" [see 7800].

Invites him to visit.

Comments on dubious story involving natural history of Formosa. Suggests that Robert Swinhoe could give an answer.

Thanks FCD for information about eyes [for Expression].

Must interrupt work on the subject to prepare new edition of Origin [6th].

Comments on gift of a new work by FCD [possibly "Die Projection der Gesichtserscheinung nach der Richtungslinien", Arch. Opthalmol. 17 (1871) Abt. 2: 1–68].

Thanks JTM for information on ants.

Mentions letter "from a Texas gentleman" Gideon Lincecum describing ants that plant seeds [see 3082].

Notes that fly orchid is unattractive to insects. Asks JTM to attempt fertilisation experiment with this plant.

Invites MF to visit.

Asks where he can obtain curare for plant experiment.

Thanks him for curare.

Comments on CW’s article on phyllotaxy;

discusses criticisms of Origin by Mivart.

Wishes to republish CW’s review as pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].

Two sons will visit America. Hopes they may call on CW.

Letter of introduction for his sons [G. H. and Francis Darwin].

Buys ten shares in the Artizans, Labourers, & General Dwellings Co.

Doubts whether an experiment to test the durability of human bones would be worth while. Absence of such bones in post-glacial river-bed deposits does not weigh in the least on CD.

Glad CW has written on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].

Sure that CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)] will do cause good service.

Grateful for kindness to sons in America.

Sends enclosure for Captain Jones.

Comments on essay by E. D. Cope ["On the origin of genera", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20 (1868): 242–300].

Declines to join movement; has not sufficiently considered subject.

Discusses role of orbicular muscle and distended veins in eye in secretion of tears. Asks WB’s opinion.

Acknowledges payment from sale of his books.

CD has lost his reference to cross between gold and silver pheasants.