Will soon manage to go to Beaulieu. Is glad the book is going off well. Is thinking of going to the Roman Villa at Brading on the Isle of Wight.

CD’s comment that certain instincts originate as variations of the brain, rather than as habits, is supported by Brown-Séquard’s and C. F. O. Westphal’s work on epileptiform movements.

Description of remains of a Roman villa and the worm activity at the site.

Thanks CD for his note and his new book [Movement in plants].

Makes him feel "we must go beyond plants for a really elemental pathology".

Wishes he knew enough about crystals to work at them.

Preoccupied by reorganisation of Botanic Garden.

Regards to Francis Darwin.

Wants to propose Frank for F.R.S. now, with election in 1882.

Comments on Pangenesis. Quotes long passage from article by Fritz Müller concerning regeneration of lost members among crustaceans.

Kosmos has been sold to Eduard Koch in Stuttgart; will be converted into a weekly. Science will be de-emphasised. Krause seeking new publisher to continue on old basis.

Gustav Jäger injured in train accident.

Thanks CD for a copy of his book [Movement in plants].

Thanks for Movement in plants; particularly supports indirect rather than direct action of light and gravity on plants.

THH will be at Kensington.

He has been so busy that he has let the Wallace business stand over.

No summary available.

Recommends letters by William Topley in Geological Magazine. WT discusses past distribution of oceans and continents.

Have received Movement in plants. It will interest not only botanists but zoologists and biologists.

Ten years ago AD-P encountered great opposition when he started teaching Darwinism at Zurich. Now all except old Oswald Heer call themselves Darwinists.

Many thanks for Movement in plants; is especially interested in sensitivity of young seedlings.

Thanks for Movement in plants, which confirms HV’s unpublished conclusions concerning gravity and the horizontal bending of radicles.

[CD note forwards letter to Francis Darwin.]

No summary available.

Would like to reply to Samuel Butler’s Unconscious memory [1880] in Kosmos.

Argues against volcanic origin of coral islands and for the submergence of continents. Cites Judd’s argument on the volcanoes of the moon.

Returns book [W. O. Focke, Pflanzen-Mischlinge]. It was of great use.

Suggests experiment involving light stimulation of plants.

Sends draft of the Wallace memorial.