Thanks CD for offer of financial support. Discusses application for funds for Ceylon trip.

Has told John Collier to write to CD to arrange for portrait.

Will read [W. Graham’s] Creed of science.

Has got into row with W. B. Carpenter over thought-reading.

AdeC thinks Monographiae phanerogamarum may be of some use to CD for the most nearly correct names to adopt.

Enthusiasm for Henry George’s Progress and poverty. Considers it to rank with Adam Smith’s work. His own work on the land question [Land nationalisation (1882)].

No summary available.

Thanks for suggesting that a spare copy of his book [Treatise on comparative embryology (1880–1)] be sent to Fritz Müller.

Would be honoured if CD would come to dine with him, distinguished foreign guests, and H.R.H. Prince of Wales, on 3 Aug, the opening of the [7th International Medical] Congress.

Reports de Bary’s opinion of Max Cornu. Accounts of various botanical experiments and observations.

Thanks CD for his kind judgment on his book [The natural conditions of existence (1881)].

E. Ray Lankester has written an unfriendly review of it [Nature 23 (1880–1): 405–9].

Reports on a visit to Hermann Vöchting and discussion of Julius Sachs.

Has not been able to win a position that would allow him to conduct research. Seeks technical job instead. Asks for loan to tide himself over probationary period.

Surprised by CD’s intention to publish [Earthworms] so soon. Remonstrates against doing so. Asks deferment until October to co-ordinate with American publication and ensure best profit.

Many thanks for CD’s advice and suggestions. His letter is a great source of encouragement.

Points out what he believes to be two errors in CD’s paper on inheritance [Nature 24 (1881): 257; Collected papers 2: 230–1].

Hastens to assure CD that his book [Earthworms] will be published as soon as possible, since CD wishes it.

The material for his Australian aborigines was collected by his daughter, who had lived among them from age three to fifteen.

Will try to verify a story he heard that there are pouched or marsupial rabbits in Australia.

Asks whether CD believes in the immortality of the soul.

Forwards to CD the diploma of "Presidente Onorario degli Anziana Pitagorica".