Sends drawings of atypical Geranium and honeysuckle pollen-grains. Would they produce variation in seedlings?

Share dealings.

"I have received a very large box full of beautiful tea from Russia yesterday … my life is as regular & monotonous as a clock.

I make sure, but wofully slow progress, with my new book."

Sends CD some Indian corn seeds to demonstrate the extreme effect sometimes producible on progeny by the mutilation of a parent.

Writes of a recent book.

Sets a time for CD to call.

Humphrey does not think more bones in female os coccyx than in male. Because of maceration it is impossible to compare male and female skeletons. Has another coach while Stuart ill.

Sends 2d ed. of his Essays on physiological subjects (1869).

Discovery of skull of "River-bed" race of man near Corwen.

Suggests time for AA to visit.

Send information about the bust of himself by Thomas Woolner and suggests applying to the sculptor himself about a cast.

Criticises chapter on good effect of crossing in Variation: (1) does not accept that inbreeding alone results in degeneracy; (2) good effects of crossing exaggerated; (3) denies deleterious effects of close marriage in humans.

Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.

Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.

Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].

Thanks for drawing. ‘The "Woolnerian tip" is worth anything to me.’

Asks for figures of embryos by A. Ecker and T. L. W. Bischoff to copy [for Descent, ch. 1].

Sends enclosure [a letter from Lady Lyell?]. He is choking with vanity.

Is going to send Willy to Mr La Touche in Salop; he brought up young Colenso and Frank Lyell. Some of his friends will think he is sending his son into a nest of young adders!

CD has already agreed that Julius Victor Carus will translate his next book.

Sends a cheque to clear FD’s debts. Hopes he will be more careful in the future.

Ask whether CD would like to subscribe again to National Education League. Describes the League’s goals.

Is leaving tonight for Genoa;

sends a French paper [not identified].

Horace Darwin wishes to have private tuition to help him pass the "Little Go" and so CD wonders if he might be excused College lectures for the present, to prevent undue strain.