The unreliability of the work of J.-B. Legrain on consanguineous marriages [Recherches critiques et experimentales relatives aux marriages consanguins, extrait du Bull. Acad. R. Med. Belg. 2d ser. 9, no. 3].

Asks for CD’s autograph and photograph.

Thanks CD for his subscription to the bust in honour of Theodor Schwann.

CD has been nominated as a Membre Associé of the Belgian Royal Academy.

Discusses crustacean embryology; EvB is at variance with Dohrn.

Many thanks for copy of Descent.

Would like to visit CD when he comes to England.