JL’s article on Huxley’s "Lectures [to working men]".

Planning a volume of essays [Prehistoric times (1865)].

Has obtained microscopes for CD.

Wishes to borrow volumes 1 and 3 of Narrative [vol. 1 by Capt. P. P. King, vol. 3 by CD].

Congratulates CD on receiving the Copley Medal.

Vexed at the address of the President of the Royal Society [on award of Copley medal to CD].

JL’s MS at printer’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].

Apologises for failure to post letter.

Delighted at CD’s praise of his book [Prehistoric times (1865)].

Returns [Fritz?] Müller’s work [probably Für Darwin (1864)]. It is a remarkable memoir.

Returns Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].

Anxious to make acquaintance of Ernst Haeckel [who was staying with CD].

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.

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.