CD sends thanks for the honour conferred by his election as an honorary member, though ill health may prevent his taking advantage of the privileges granted.

Invites AC to visit.

Discusses meaning of term "sexual selection".

Comments on variability in males.

Regrets he cannot visit Oxford.

Comments on sketches in letter from JP [9360].

Subscribes to a reprint of Pieter Boddaert’s Table des planches enluminéez d’histoire naturelle [check ‘éez’!?] [1874].

Asks correspondent to obtain odd numbers of Flora.

Discusses LR’s communication concerning supernumerary mammae.

Will subscribe £25 towards F. A. Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples.

CD responds to information about residue of milk digested by Drosera. Is obliged for information on strength of acids and albumen and now has little doubt acid had impaired the leaves. Awaits word on pepsin and papaw juice.

Thanks for note and paper ["Secondary sexual characters in Cheiroptera", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1873): 241–52].

Has corrected error in new edition of Descent [1874].

Sees nothing strange in geckos inhabiting frost-clad land and having no claws.

Comments on CL’s planned bequest to science. CD would do the same if he had fewer sons.

Asks about insects and seeds on leaves of Pinguicula.

Discusses specimens of Utricularia.

Mentions JR’s work on desmids [The British Desmidieae [Desmidiae!?] (1848)].

Discusses effect of atropine solution on eye,

and effect of phosphate of ammonia solution on gland of Drosera.

Would like to see work by T. W. Engelmann and possibly one by Dr De Ruyter.

Thanks GJR for his letter, regrets pressure of other work prevents his giving GJR’s remarks the attention they deserve. GJR makes clearer how an organ that has started to decrease will go on decreasing.

Discusses Utricularia sent by JP.

Thanks JP for note.

Sends instructions for mailing Utricularia plants to Down in his absence.

Comments on Spencer’s terms.

Discusses flower structures of the hop.

Discusses belief in immortality and a personal God.

Describes his holiday in Southampton.

Comments on papers of John Wesley Judd.