Thanks for GR’s "Address" [see 10141].

Wishes he had not quoted Bagehot’s remark [in Descent 1: 239] about decrease in savage populations. Interest in subject.

Will send vol. 1 [of Variation, 2d ed.] as soon as complete so that correspondent can decide about the translation.

Thanks for FdeC’s work [Lectures on state medicine (1875)].

Sends signed photo of himself.

Has published only one paper in Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society, "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. His conclusions have proved erroneous.

Thanks MN for essay ["Die Congerien", Abh. Geol. Bundesanst. Wien 7 (1875)]. It is the best case CD has met, showing "direct influence of conditions of life on the organization". A. Hyatt has come to same conclusion: that closely similar forms may be derived from distinct lines of descent. CD did not emphasise in Origin the direct action of environment on modification of species; most of the best evidence has been observed since its publication.

Letter of recommendation for Richard Bowdler Sharpe, ornithologist.

Wants WED to thank F. de Chaumont for some valuable observations.

Surprising thought that diseases of plants should illustrate human pathology.

Will recommend A. B. Frank’s article in a German encyclopedia, on diseases of plants, to Francis Darwin.

Gives JP a good case of regeneration in plants – the radicle of the common bean. That plants have little power of regeneration is not difficult to understand by anyone who believes in Pangenesis, "if such a man exists … There is reason to think that my imaginary gemmules have small power of passing from cell to cell."

Refers to early experiments in which he tried to produce galls in plants by injecting poisons.

Asks PLS to sign the memorial for a pension for Wallace.

Thanks JL for copy of Die Religionen [1881].

Thanks YD [for Contribution à l’étude de l’appareil circulatoire des crustacés édriopthalmes marins (1881)].

Acknowledges receipt of parcel of colours and chemical reagents.

Asks correspondent to sign certificate for Raphael Meldola [as a candidate for Royal Society].

Thanks JWF and G. R. Waterhouse for cirripede specimens.

CD’s health remains bad and as he grows older he becomes weaker.

Declines, regretfully, to contribute to or to have his name appear on a new magazine.

Thanks correspondent for a remarkable instance of inheritance [not specified].

Asks to borrow FK’s specimen of Conia rosea. Would like to know if FK collected it himself [in S. Africa] or was given it, because CD has a closely allied species from Australia, which surprises him. [See Living Cirripedia 2: 335.]

Extremely sorry for trouble he has given about his signature.

One child dangerously ill with diphtheria, another with much fever.

Thanks JP for bearing in mind his strong wish to learn any facts on inheritance at corresponding ages, and on correlation of growth.

JP’s case of teeth affected by syphilitic parents seems very curious. Would like to hear a few particulars when they meet.