Thanks for letter [7533] and the interesting notes. Even more interesting is HHHvZ’s case of the De Haas family.

Thanks for copy of Descent. Dining with Vernon Lushington, who is jubilant over the book.

Pleased that JJM has finished translation of Descent.

Will write again to Tyndall about odours.

Asks for the circumstances under which WO saw a man arrested for murder; quotes from notes he made from WO’s conversation [Expression, p. 294].

Also would like to quote WO on the expression of resignation by persons about to undergo serious operations [Expression, p. 271].

Ogle wants very much to meet JT.

Referring to CD’s passage on monkeys’ acquiring taste for tea, coffee, and tobacco, AN tells of three monkeys he kept in Australia that developed strong taste for rum and smoking tobacco without being taught in any way [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 7 n.].

Thanks JT for his kindness to Ogle.

Asks what his profits on the reprints of Descent will be when half have been sold.

Good reviews in Saturday Review and Pall Mall Gazette;

contemptuous one as usual in Athenæum.

The information about the phascolarctos [koala] is very surprising, and he will preserve AM’s note.

Has seen Ogle. His subject [olfactory nerve tissue and absorption of odours] has often occupied JT’s attention.

Thanks for Descent.

Reveals that it is his own family that has the movable scalp.

The Franco-Prussian war has held up the publication of the 17th and last volume of the Prodromus.

Reminds CD of earlier promise to permit extracts of Descent to be translated and published in EA’s Revue Scientifique once entire work is printed. Book appeared weeks ago, so EA again requests permission. Revue has been appearing irregularly owing to war with Germans.

JM will print 2000 more copies of Descent as a second edition [issue]. Profits should be large as expenses are small.

Seeks to clarify his and HW’s views on the causes of repentance or shame.

Comments on points made in Hensleigh Wedgwood’s letter [7470] on moral sense in Descent.

Answers CD’s letter [7560], on points of agreement between them, the chief one being the sympathy which man has with his fellows. Disagrees however with CD’s "principle" of the painful feelings of dissatisfied instinct.

Clarification of the supra-condyloid foramen in humans and animals.

Relation of surplus vigour of males to sexual selection.

Very glad about profits of book. Glad CD flummoxed Mivart.

Requests permission to quote from CD’s letters to Charles Boner in her edition [of Memoirs and letters of Charles Boner (1871)].