Sends a model of bee cells "as bad as a Chinese puzzle". [A series of paper cut-out figures.]

Discusses geometry related to the structure of bees’ cells. Encloses notes and diagrams dealing with intersections of spheres.

Describes his trip by canal to Glasgow, and sightseeing there.

Writes of "the Dr’s" [Henry Holland’s] mixed reactions to the book.

Adds a personal opinion, "it is the most interesting book I ever read".

Found his vessel delayed. Spent an hour or so at the Hunterian Museum, "well worth going to".

EAD wants changes made and shelves built to improve the laboratory at the Mount [Darwin residence]; sends drawings and will bring chemical instruments, a book, and his record of experiments done in his chemistry course.

He has now been matriculated.

Will be glad to have CD.

Describes the lectures at medical school in London.

Medical studies in London. Compares lectures and students at London and Edinburgh. Comments on the cost of dissection.

Asks CD to help Thomas Carlyle find and borrow a book.

Asks for a note to the Geological Society, since the museum did not have the book Carlyle wanted.

Never mind the letter to the Geological Society; the museum got the book for Carlyle.

Asks for an order to buy a CD photograph for Mr Tait.

Describes a box which has come for CD.

Asks for John Price’s address.

Suggestions for laboratory equipment. Will buy some mineral specimens. Describes experiments he has seen.

Moncure Conway wants to call on CD.

EAD has seen the extract from Mill’s [System of] Logic which Carpenter read when arguing CD should have the Copley. Has CD seen it?

Sends the tithes.

Sends congratulations on CD’s engagement. "It is a marriage which will give almost as much pleasure to the rest of the world as it does to yourselves."

Sends "2 pods ¼ gr each" to tide CD over.

Asks CD to sign some "Sunday tickets" [for the Zoological Garden?].