H. T. Stainton should be elected F.R.S.

Discusses the practice of exogamy; asks if any animals have an instinctive repugnance to inbreeding.

Thanks CD for information.

Returns R. G. Haliburton’s paper ["The unity of the human race proved by the universality of certain superstitions connected with sneezing", reprinted in New materials for the history of man (1863)] and sends one of his own partly in answer to it ["The early condition of man", Anthropol. Rev. 6 (1868): 1–14].

Capital BAAS meeting at Dundee.

Wants information on Fuegian harpoons. Must prepare second edition of Prehistoric times.

Introduction of humble-bees into Australia.

Many thanks for the book [Variation].

Discusses [Fritz?] Müller’s confusion about ova and pseudova; JL’s Daphnia paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100; see 1979] first demonstrated their structural identity.

Points out a misleading statement in Variation.

Found [Variation] full of interest. Has not yet made up his mind about Pangenesis; wants to hear what can be said against it.

JL’s Royal Institution lectures.

Would like to borrow CD’s carriage on polling day.

Arrangements for polling.

Further arrangements for polling. Everything looks well. [Ellen Lubbock notes, "he is too sanguine – ".]

JL’s failure to be elected to Parliament.

Thanks for the pamphlets; JL’s paper, "Primitive condition of man" [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 6 (1868): 328].

No summary available.

Down School funds.

Down School funds.

Asks for reference to Louis Agassiz’s views on embryos indicating ancestral structures.

Has been asked by Henry Powell [new vicar of Down] for help to build a house at Down; asks for CD’s advice.