Thanks RABL for his book on crocodiles [Fossile Crocodiliden (1877)].

Much obliged for account of cleistogamic flowers.

Sends thanks for a newspaper abstract; will be pleased to see the paper [probably "Economy as a phonetic force", Trans. Am. Philological Assoc.8 (1877): 123–34] when printed.

Sends his own ["Biographical sketch of an infant"], saying it is of little value, the observations having been made before recent advances in philology.

Comments on GJR’s papers in Nature [see 11103].

Mentions manuscript by Miss Lawless on fertilisation in plants.

Discusses work of Francis Darwin on Dipsacus

and his own experiments on Drosera.

Comments on GJR’s paper in Nature.

Asks about sleep movements of Erythrina crista-galli. Comments on movements of Averrhoa.

Questions Mrs W on difference in flight capacity of male and female silkworm moths and asks her for results of experiments he suggested she do with silkworms to determine hereditariness of dark "eyebrows". [See Variation 1: 302.]

Thanks RIL for notes.

Asks about movement of Euphorbia.

Agrees to look over MS.

Thanks WCM for plant.

Mentions "your new room" at Down.

Approves terms used in LAE’s manuscript. Discusses relative advantages of self-fertilisation and cross-fertilisation.

Thanks LAE for pointing out erratum [in Cross and self-fertilisation].

Thanks CTEvS for photographs of human abnormality;

regrets death of Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm.

Asks for some seeds of coniferous plants. Wants to examine their first leaves.

Discusses enclosed figures on elevation of terraces in several Scottish glens as surveyed by William Kemp and David Stevenson. Comments on Robert Chambers’ view of the terraces. Mentions a letter on the terraces, originally written for publication, which he has asked Robert Jameson [editor of the Edinburgh New Philos. J.] to destroy.

Comments on GJR’s lecture on evolution.

Regrets failure of graft experiments.

Hopes GJR will not give up on Pangenesis. Mentions article by Gustav Jäger on Pangenesis.

Would like the letters from grandfather [Erasmus Darwin] to J. A. H. Reimarus to be published.

Asks for the wing of a goose said to have transmitted effects of an injury by hereditary descent.

Cannot allow WCM to pay extra charge for glass. Rooms all very comfortable.

CD will call on Tuesday morning.

Offers HM-E some specimens of Lernaea, a crustacean parasite on Balanus elongatus.

Mentions opinion of Harry Goodsir about a form CD believes to be the larva of Lernaea.