Answers to queries are being sent.

Enclosure 1: statistics on puppies bred by Rayner in 1873.

Enclosure 2 from W. N. Massey: number of males or females raised depends entirely on preference of greyhound breeders.

Enclosure 3 from E. L. Williams: breeders prefer to destroy bitch pups.

Enclosure 4: Thomas Morse answers CD’s three queries, transmitted by GC: (1) in deerhounds, females predominate, three to one; (2) in all but cattle, females are less worth preserving; (3) TM rears all the young.

Enclosure 5: John Wright responds to CD’s queries about proportion of sexes in births of horses, cattle, and dogs.

Enclosure 6: G. W. Hickman cannot give reliable answers to CD’s queries on proportion of sexes born [in greyhounds?].

On the declining population of the Hawaiian Islands [see Descent (1875), pp. 186–7, 187–8 n. 43].

CD wishes to acquire a piece of JL’s land.

Statistics showing rate of decline of population in Sandwich Islands, 1832–72.

Inherited dental abnormalities in man. [Enclosed are proofs of pp. 113–16 from J. Tomes, A system of dental surgery, 2d ed. (1873).]

Statement of U. S. sales of Origin, Expression, and Descent.

Thanks CD for copy of Examiner.

Fear of communism is making CD’s theory popular among possessing classes.

Describes reception of Lyell’s Antiquity of man among German country people.

Responds to CD’s queries about breeders’ practices in destroying and saving males or females in litters of deerhounds.

Sends £40 for copyright to Édmond Barbier’s revision of Moulinié’s Descent translation.

Journal of researches translation is in press.

Finds statistical evidence that cousin marriages are at least three times as frequent in "our rank" as in the lower.

Believes that he has an important physical theory: all atoms revolve.

George brought a plant from Cambridge, which he is keeping for CD.

Thanks CD for £10 to help with his law case.

The Bishop of Falkland [Waite Hockin Stirling] is coming to visit BJS, who will question him for CD.

Discusses politics; regrets they have been badly beaten by the Tory candidate.

Will send CD’s query to eight or ten people.

Books CD requested have been packed and sent.

He will present CD with the classified catalogue [of Royal Geographical Society].

He has not learned whereabouts of Thomas Staley.

Comments on G. H. Lewes’s book [The life and works of Goethe (1855)].

Matters of etiquette concerning his certificate for the Royal Society.

Sends about 15 sheets on instinct from his book [A philosophical treatise on the nature and constitution of man (1876)] for CD’s comments.

Asks CD if he can reconcile a passage in Mark Hopkins’ Outline study of man [1873] with the theory of development.