So far VOK has lost money on his translation of Descent because of pirate editions.

Agrees to share profits on Expression.

Wishes to come to Down to make arrangements for Russian translation of Expression.

Agrees on price for supplying Appleton with Expression electrotypes and stereotypes. Difficulties with heliotypes [for illustrations of Expression].

CD cannot omit mention of Wilhelm Wundt’s Thierseele [Vorlesungen über die Menschen und Thierseele (1863)] in his book.

Murray could control the number of copies of translation of Expression sold in Russia by the number of heliotypes he will supply.

The buck is well; Dr Carter has returned, and things will go better.

Is satisfied with CD’s arrangement with Murray for Appleton’s to pay $50 [pounds or dollars!?] for stereo plates and clichés of 21 woodblocks for CD’s new book [Expression, see 8217]. Has ordered 5000 sets of plate impressions from Robert Cooke at Murray’s.

Explains the cost of heliotype plates [for Expression] and the consequent need to raise the price of the book.

Sends a set of plates [for Expression]. Price of the book must be 12s instead of 10s 6d, or 14s instead of 12s.

Hostility of birds toward others with same colour;

nuptial plumage.

Spiza cyanea and Spiza ciris.

Parallel quotations from Benjamin Franklin and Descent about absorption of heat by different colours; applies to winter and summer plumage of birds.

Reasoning power in dogs.

Cost of plates [for Expression] is very high and will make "a terrible hole in the profits".

VOK is marking the passages [in Wundt, Menschen und Thierseele (1863)] that may interest CD.

Offers observations on expression in Australian dogs, since he knows CD plans to publish on the subject.

Sends a paper in which he has applied CD’s theory of natural selection to the explanation of the mortality rate of new-born infants ["Die Kindersterblickeit", J. Kinderkrankheiten (1872)].

Has ordered printing of 2000 sets of illustrations [for Expression] for Murray’s and informed D. Appleton of price per thousand. Has answered letter from Eduard Koch [of Schweizerbart]. Has also arranged for index.

Wishes to have Dutch publication rights for a translation of Expression.

Has reported on the Naples Zoological Station to BAAS meeting at Brighton. Hopes to open it in January. Is at work building up the library by contributions from publishers and naturalists.

Deplores Wallace’s "drifting away" and his association with such men as H. C. Bastian.

Disbelieves in ascidians as our ancestors. Has a substitute he is sure will please CD.

Cost of impression of the heliotype plates [for Expression] is so high that he asks CD to consider having a set photographed onto wood and then engraved. Index [for Expression] is in hand.

Doubts reported cases of homing instinct in dogs.

Defers to CD and has ordered 2000 sets of impressions from heliotype plates [for Expression] for Murray’s and 3000 sets for Appleton. Also has directed printer to send Appleton a set of stereotype plates of the work and the woodcuts.