Thanks for the honour conferred upon him by the Epping Forest Field Club.

Testimonial for S. B. J. Skertchly, stating CD’s high opinion of his work.

On instinct in insects. Intends to experiment as CD proposes.

Discusses sense of direction of cats and other animals.

Speculates on origin of habit [of insects?] of laying eggs on plants of certain families.

Nature [21 (1880): 382] has an item about tremors and earth movements in Japan.

Thanks CD for his offer. Suggests it be used to start a fund to pay travel expenses of English naturalists who want to come to the Station.

No one can prove death is inevitable, but the evidence in favour of this belief is overwhelming. It is in the highest degree improbable that man should cease to follow the general law of evolution, and evolution implies successive generations, which implies death.

Leaves decision as to use of his gift to AD.

Forwards, on behalf of the Birmingham Philosophical Society, an address offering CD the first honorary membership of the Society. Encloses formal record of this meeting.

Plants in Venezuelan plains.

Observations on Turnera: heterostyly, leaf-base glands’ secretion eaten by ants.

Observations on role of leaf secretions in fertilisation of Marcgravia and Passiflora.

Thanks correspondent for a gift of books.

Gladly turns reading room over to JWCF for his mission work. Through his gospel services there is not a drunkard left in the village.

Sends the Litchfields two drafts of a letter in reply to Samuel Butler’s letter to the Athenæum; hopes for their approval.

Advise against making any reply to Samuel Butler’s charges.