Quotes CD’s "horrid doubt" [see 13230]. WG fails to see force of the argument. Evolution throws no suspicion on man’s reasoning faculties. The case is no different with the faculty that gives data.

Repeats request for loan in order to spend probationary training period in chemical factory.

Outlines address to York BAAS meeting on history of geographical distribution. Organising theme: advancement in this science based on ideas enunciated by scientific voyagers. Asks CD’s advice.

Reports on a luncheon of scientific savants at which the Crown Prince of Germany [and Prince of Wales?] were present.

Responds to JDH’s outline history of plant geography.

Considers Humboldt the "greatest scientific traveller who ever lived".

Discusses the origin and rapid radiation of angiosperms in Cretaceous period.

Comments on importance of work of Alphonse de Candolle, Saporta, Axel Blytt.

AD’s son has inherited the same head malformation as one AD had received as a result of the pressure of his nurse’s arm while carrying him when a baby.

Asks the printers that the table of contents [for Earthworms] be done in the same fashion used in his other books. Requests another proof.

Sends a copy of his book [The student’s Darwin (1881)]. Hopes he may be forgiven for carrying his reasoning further than CD may allow.

Many thanks for Movement in plants.

Sends some seeds wanted by CD.

Working on York BAAS address; finds CD’s comments helpful. JDH writes detailed response and expansion.

Thanks EBA for his book [see 13283]. Has no objection to people differing from him or carrying his arguments further than he would consider safe.

Responds to JDH on history of plant geography.

Opinion of Humboldt.

Origin of higher phanerogams.

Importance of the occurrence of south temperate forms in the Northern Hemisphere.

Has been collecting on the mountain summits and wants someone with whom to communicate about plants.

Trifolium resupinatum is not in season.

Is making final preparations for his address [at York BAAS meeting] and questions CD on specific points.

No one could have thought about evolution and not about representative species; yet no one discussed it fully until Origin, including von Baer.

Did not know of Leopold von Buch’s Description physique des îles Canaries [1836] when Origin was published.

"As far as I know no one ever discussed the meaning of the relation between representative species before I did & as I suppose Wallace did in his paper before the Linn. Soc. [1858]."

Sends CD information he had requested on W. Graham.

The General Post Office sent one penny in response to GHD’s complaint, and demanded a receipt, which CD has sent. CD will keep the penny.

Looks forward to CD’s visit on 8 Sept.

E. J. Trelawney, the friend of Shelley and Byron, has just died in a nearby village.

Comments on large orange.

Glad she is going to York [BAAS meeting].