Thanks to Times review, Murray needs 500 more copies [of Movement in plants].

Has heard of flood from which Fritz Müller escaped. Has he lost books, microscope, apparatus? Offers £50 or £100.

Will send copy of Movement in plants.

Encloses copies of articles [unspecified].

Thanks JG for his magnificent book [Prehistoric Europe].

Wants to see Frank become F.R.S. before he dies.

Pities Wallace and wants a pension for him very much.

Asks whether WED can collect some worm-castings from Beaulieu Abbey.

Responds, with some embarrassment, to JDH’s caution on Frank’s F.R.S. prospects.

Gives instructions to WED about looking for earthworm activity at Brading.

Mentions James Geikie’s excellent book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)].

Thanks for agreeing to propose Frank as F.R.S.

Would have enjoyed discussing Island life.

The Kovalevskys have been to lunch.

Madame Kovalevsky is greatly interested in GHD’s papers.

CD and Emma enjoyed SH’s visit to Queen Anne Street and would like her to come to Down. When he next comes to London, he hopes to call on Fanny Biddulph.

Comments on Prehistoric Europe.

Asks JG’s opinion of Daniel Mackintosh’s paper ["Results of a systematic survey of erratic blocks", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 35 (1879): 425–53].

Comments on loess.

Feels uneasy about streams of stone of Falkland Islands.

Thanks for report [on potato experiments].

Still has subscription money for JT’s experiments. How much does he need?

Comments on HV’s Über Organbildung im Pflanzenreich: über Wachstumsursachen und Lebenseinheiten [pt 1, 1878].

Mentions paper by his son [Francis Darwin, "The theory of the growth of cuttings, illustrated by observations on the bramble, Rubus fruticosus", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 18 (1881): 406–19].

Asks GJA to sign memorial [petitioning Government for pension for Wallace].

Asks Flower to sign document [application for pension for Wallace].

Does JT require part or all of £90 that CD holds from subscribers for his experiments?

On Wallace’s pension and Frank’s F.R.S.

Thanks for his letter and magnificently illustrated book.

Suggests JT make public his letter to W. E. Gladstone [on results of potato experiments]; thinks post office would object to JT’s plan of distribution.