JL’s brother-in-law [Robert Birkbeck] would like a note of introduction to John Murray.

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.