Thanks WED for eyeglass.

Reports on health of Horace and family matters.

Has finished Orchids.

The Director-General of the Army Medical Department [J. B. Gibson] agrees to have CD’s circular distributed to Army surgeons in India and the West Indies, with reply being voluntary. [See Descent 1: 244–5 n.]

Discusses primrose ovules,

Atlantis paper [Nat. Hist. Rev. (1862): 149–70],

plant migrations;

Corydalis.

Asks for an order to buy a CD photograph for Mr Tait.

Encourages DO to publish his paper and put his name to it. [Paper apparently not published.] Concurs with his views on primordial nature of hermaphroditism.

Thanks correspondent for his excellent review [of French edition of Origin (1862)], which he feels will help the spread of his views in France.