Thanks CD for helping his successful candidacy for F.R.S.

He is working up Arctic insects. Bombus is found at 83° N., as far north as has been reached.

Discusses locks and window-fastenings, which CD has discovered are not included in the contract for alterations to the house at Down, and a cornice in a passage-way..

Grateful for CD’s support for his election as F.R.S.

CD has sent the pig’s foot to William Henry Flower to examine.

Explains why he did not add his photograph to the album presented by German naturalists to CD. Instead he wishes to dedicate to CD his work on the vertebrate-type eyes on the back of some Mollusca. [Enclosed is a MS introduction to this work, Über Sehorgane von Typus der Wirbelthieraugen auf dem Rücken von Schnecken.].

CD submits his paper ["A biographical sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200] for possible publication.

Thanks for GOS’s memoir on Brisinga [1875].

Is honoured by CGS’s dedication [see 10942].

His observation of the dorsal eyes of Onchidium is interesting and surprising.

Thanks for a copy of VC’s Théorie du Fatalisme (Theory of fatalism; Conta 1877).

Sends MS [of Forms of flowers]. Since sale is likely to be small, Murray may not want to publish it on usual terms. CD thinks it may be his last book and asks Murray to publish it on most favourable terms he can afford.

JM will be pleased to publish the new work [Forms of flowers] on the usual terms. MS has been sent to the printer.