Thanks for copy of Claus’s book, Untersuchungen zur Erforschung der genealogischen Grundlage des Crustaceen-Systems: ein Beitrag zur Descendenzlehre (Studies on the investigation of the genealogical foundation of the Crustacea: a contribution to the theory of descent; Claus 1876).

Thanks for Japanese book and for HNM’s papers on observations made during Challenger voyage.

Would be pleased if HNM visited him.

Thanks for Japanese books, and papers by HNM.

Comments on Peripatus.

Not disappointed at what William Thomson says about evolution.

Would like to see the photographs.

Was glad to read HNM’s paper on the New Zealand Peripatus.

Some years ago he would have been delighted to take up the Cirripedia collected on the Challenger expedition, but feels that the subject has largely passed out of his mind.

Thanks him for the 9th Report [on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of Missouri]. "What a pretty illustration of a sub-rudimentary organ is that of the saw-fly!"

Thanks for HNM’s offer to dedicate book [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].

Thanks for his translation of [Anton] Kerner [Flowers and their unbidden guests: the translation revised and edited by W. Ogle (1878)].

Thanks for HNM’s [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].

Has told John Lubbock how highly he thinks of HNM’s work, and has heard that HMN’s claims will be fully considered.

Comments on HNM’s book [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].

Thanks for the offer of specimens, but cannot use them due to other work.

Invites HNM to Down on 9 May.

The recipient is thanked for his "interesting letter".

CD sends an article received from [James Geikie?]. "You will see that it is important to know whether the laminae of slate have ever been bent up-hill."

Gives his high opinion of HNM’s abilities.

Elaborates on the theories propounded in his recently published work [Earthworms], describing the reproductive system of worms and the absorption of organic matter in the soil. [See 13483.]

Adds to his previous subscription for the Rolleston Memorial Fund.

Hopes HNM’s position at Oxford is satisfactory.

Thanks for case of inherited malconformation.

Two letters have arrived for WED.

Joseph has had two teeth out.

Discusses exchange of photographs with Édouard Claparède, "for whom I feel the highest respect".