Thanks THF for information from Colonial Office on population statistics showing the inhabitants of some areas are far from becoming sterile.

Comments on his examination of slides [of milk casein?] sent by CD.

Surprised by CD’s finding that a drop of one per cent hydrochloric acid stops digestion of albumen by Drosera.

Orders a copy of Dassen 1837, Onderzoek aangaande de bladbewegingen (research on leaf movements), published in Tijdschrift voor Natuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie IV p. 106.

Asks for a specimen of Pinguicula.

Invites FG to visit.

"With kind regards, & many thanks for Prof. Steenstrup’s Photograph, which is most highly valued by C. Darwin"

Returns and sends comments on Clarke Hawkshaw’s essay ‘The persistence of forms of life in the depths of the sea’.

Thanks for facts on inheritance

Thinks CST’s paper (C. S. Tomes 1874) about the enamel on the teeth of the armadillo is most remarkable.

Encloses a statement and circular he has been asked to send to JL.

Thanks for JWS’s updatings to his Darwinian bibliography and regrets he is a poor German scholar.

Statistics showing rate of decline of population in Sandwich Islands, 1832–72.

On the extinction of populations. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 183.]

Extract from the Honolulu Gazette on the decreasing population of the Sandwich Islands.

Observations on Coronilla.

Inherited dental abnormalities in man. [Enclosed are proofs of pp. 113–16 from J. Tomes, A system of dental surgery, 2d ed. (1873).]

LD has misplaced some figures on which he was to work.

Sends references on Utricularia and Pinguicula.

Reports that Pinguicula is found in north of Scotland. Gives local names and uses. None of his patients, who are from all parts of Scotland, has heard of the use of Pinguicula to curdle milk.

Describes the coral formations of the island of Rodriguez [Indian Ocean].

Sends paper ["Strictures on Darwinism, pt 2", J. Anthropol. Inst. 3 (1874): 208–28].

Refers to articles in the Art Journal on changes in English countenance since the Tudor period.