Glad to have heard JL’s admirable speech read aloud.
JL’s sentence about glaciation will do excellently. Is glad JL thought about dimorphism of butterflies.
Condolences on the death of JL’s wife.
Suggests that the pappus of Compositae, when lying on ground, may absorb water which may function in seed germination.
Comments on MS of JL’s [1881] BAAS Presidential Address. Suggests that more attention be given to parthenogenesis.
JL’s address [Presidential Address, 31 Aug 1881, Rep. BAAS (1881): 1–51] has made him think about important steps in advancing geology. Lists major advances in his lifetime.
Supports the statements on Henry Hicks in JL’s address.
Bonney is an "objector general".
CD has always supported A. C. Ramsay.
Asks about source of paper on the metamorphosis of Pycnogonida for C. S. Bate.
Sends four parts of Van Tieghem, and recommends Wiesner 1881.
Forgot to suggest that JL repeat experiments with bees and artifical flowers.
Letter of introduction for Romilly Allen.
Sends beetle he cannot identify.
Reading J. O. Westwood [Introduction to the modern classification of insects (1839–40)] has reawakened his passion for entomology.
Regrets he cannot help JL; the point [unspecified] was always a trouble to CD also.
Has been to a poultry show.
Asks for the return of a lens.
Praise for JL’s interesting paper ["On the freshwater entomostraca of South America", Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. n.s. 3 (1854–6): 232–46].
Congratulations to JL on finding musk-ox fossil.
CD has more specimens of Helix pomatia.
Thanks for Lepidoptera book.
Invites JL to dinner.
Congratulations on JL’s marriage. Invitation to dine at Down with the Hookers, Huxleys, and T. V. Wollaston.
Inquires about a Mr Smith, who might prove helpful "in the domestic bird line".
Wishes to borrow fly pincers for his son George.
Discusses T. V. Wollaston’s book on insect variation [On the variation of species (1856)].
Smallpox in the village. Death of Joseph Parslow’s son.
Quotes passage from [Frédéric?] Gerard on distribution of certain Lepidoptera.