Discusses corrections to Variation.

Extends invitation to E. Ray Lankester to visit Down.

Would be obliged for correction of references in Variation [1st ed.].

CD obliged about the Schrankia

and thanks WTT-D for details of last number of Gardeners’ Chronicle.

Suggests WTT-D read account of Bignonia capreolata in forthcoming Climbing plants.

Plans experiments [on Melastomataceae]. Describes similar experiment performed on Monochaetum. Interested in meaning of differently coloured stamens.

Thanks for information. Absorption of ammonium carbonate by glandular hairs.

Encloses manuscript [missing] by George King ["Sport in Paritium", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 101–3].

Sends thanks to Hooker for correction of name. Mentions other errors.

Wants Imantophyllum for crossing experiments.

Is glad WTT-D thinks George King’s notes worth sending to the Linnean Society.

Discusses blackballing of E. R. Lankester [at Linnean Society]. Reports on his attempts to persuade other Fellows to support Lankester’s election.

CD’s attempts to get support for Lankester among Fellows of the Linnean Society. He has encountered opposition to the Council.

Congratulates WTT-D on [election of E. Ray Lankester to] Linnean Society.

Mentions visit to Royal Society.

Pleased to see George Bentham looking well.

Asks for titles of papers on structure of Nepenthes for use by R. L. Tait. Mentions paper by RLT.

Thanks for references for R. L. Tait.

Requests orchid specimens for experiment.

Thanks for WTT-D’s kindness about the orchids.

Thanks for Catasetum and other specimens.

Discusses the death of his daughter-in-law.

Plans to visit Southampton.

Would like Catasetum and Acropera plants.

Thanks WTT-D for praise of Cross and self-fertilisation

and for information about Mussaenda.

Has some algae from Queensland if WTT-D is interested.

Pleased and honoured by WTT-D’s review ["Darwin on fertilisation", Nature 15 (1876–77): 329–32]. Comments on review.

Thanks WTT-D for Drosophyllum seeds.