Thanks for KLR’s latest work (Rütimeyer 1875).

Comments on GJR’s experiments.

Is obliged to be given a second and improved edition of GKMvS’s excellent lectures.

CD returns MS of a paper by RLT. "If you have succeeded in separating the ferment, the fact is manifestly important." Asks whether RLT tested the digestive ability of fluid from pitchers without animal matter. This would be necessary to prove that there was ferment in the fluid. CD is glad to hear about the [passage?] for guiding insects; he had guessed this to be the case.

Acknowledges his election to the Akademie.

Would be obliged for correction of references in Variation [1st ed.].

Glad to hear that ARW is so busy.

CD believes that he has thrown some light on the acquirement of the power of digestion in Droseraceae [in Insectivorous plants].

Solicits JDH and others at Kew for signatures to nomination of Francis Darwin for membership of Linnean Society.

Apologises that he cannot supply any maize seed.

Is preparing new edition of Variation and has a query on speed of racehorses.

Apologises for keeping the tables so long [see 10090]. The results seem extremely curious.

Comments on paper by JHG and J. B. Lawes.

Thanks for a copy of Suess 1875.

Thanks for answer to racehorse query;

would be grateful for correction of any errors in Variation.

Can WDF recall the sex of the deaf white cats.

Shares Hooker’s feelings about Douglas Galton and Lord Henry Lennox.

Bored with preparing new editions.

Thanks for the photographs of disks of stone, but not to trouble to send casts, as he will not work on expression again.

Sends errata in Insectivorous plants.

Is correcting proofs of [2d ed. of] Climbing plants, to be published in November. It is, he thinks, worth translating.

A second, much corrected, edition of Variation also will be published.

Suggests GHD write a supplement to his review [of A. H. Huth’s The marriage of near kin (1875)]. Feels sorry Huth was taken in by the Legrain fraud. [See Autobiography (1958), pp. 143–4.]

Obliged for his memoir ["On the avifauna of the Galapagos", Trans. Zool. Soc. (April 1875)]. His surprise that the birds from the different islands prove so similar. Comparison of the habits, nests, eggs of the commonest species of each island would throw a flood of light upon variation.

Thanks for articles about moths sucking oranges.