JWS is seeking financial help. He is in debt and struggling and wonders if there is any paid service he might perform for CD.

Thanks BJS for his account of S. America and the Fuegians.

Can BJS ask W. H. Stirling to make observations on expression?

Has asked Hooker about the fossil leaves, and he suggests they be sent to Oswald Heer.

Has just sent MS on domestic animals [Variation] to the printer.

Thanks for observations on dimorphic plants. Dimorphism prevalent in certain groups throughout the world.

Retarded fertilisation in certain orchids.

Sending a further section to be added to the Arc of Meridian. Comments on Nicolas Lacaille's work on the meridian. Has cherished memories of thirty years previous to this time of the year.