Seed germination.

Strange that his plants [of Megarrhiza] behaved differently from AG’s [see 12455].

On clubroot fungus of cultivated Cruciferae.

Will give Russian wheat varieties another trial.

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.

Thanks HWC and the Birmingham Philosophical Society for their address in his honour.

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.

Thanks JLC for his letter, pedigree, and MS of the history of the Darwin family.

Potatoes will be lost unless JT has immediate authority to proceed.

Thanks CD for his cheque for £100. Has told Secretary of BAAS Committee [for the Station], so that he may report it. [See O. J. R. Howarth, The British Association (1931), pp. 196–7.]

Thanks for CD’s appreciation of his work on family history. Sends one of his books [unidentified].

Writes on family matters and researches.

Mentions construction of a pendulum

and completion of a paper he will send to the Royal Society.