Thanks for Earthworms. Is going to Nice for a few weeks to recuperate.

Thanks CD for offer of a copy of Earthworms.

Expresses his admiration for CD and his work.

BJS’s son has seen six Fuegians being exhibited in Berlin; BJS hopes that they might be bought from their master and returned to Tierra del Fuego.

Vegetable mould covering paving-stones in Oxfordshire lanes accumulated over 14 or 16 centuries.

Gives case of a mollusc, Scyllaea, which mimics the Sargassum on which it lives.

Lists errata in Earthworms, which he is translating.

Asks whether he is to give a gratuity of "cinquanta lire sterling" to the cook at 6 Queen Anne St.

Comments on CD’s Earthworms.

Discusses breeding habits of salmon; will the reliance on autumn-breeding fish to produce young lead to the decline of the number of spring- and summer-breeders in the rivers?

Thanks CD for copy of Earthworms.

Earthworms leave their burrows on hearing rifle volleys.

Financial paperwork; pleased at news of Horace and Ida Darwin’s baby, Erasmus.

He would support a foreigner for professorship of botany as CD suggests. W. T. Thiselton-Dyer is proposing W. C. Williamson, whom HNM considers a disaster.

Thanks for Earthworms [fifth thousand].

Sends two of his papers.

Thanks for copy of Origin with its flattering inscription.

Hopes some day to have leisure to do original research.

Remarks on the sinking of piles of cannonballs in old forts; presumably a consequence of earthworm activity.

Earthworms appear on surface after a heavy storm.

Paperwork relating to 6 Queen Anne Street, London.

Sends photograph of a wild goose that survived being shot by a nine-inch arrowhead.

Seeks a testimonial for the Chair of Geology at Edinburgh.