Promises to send sheets of his new book [Cross and self-fertilisation].

AD’s memoir [see 10504] has arrived at last.

Book [Webb and Berthelot] has reached CD.

Sorry EH dissents from Pangenesis.

Discusses corrections and illustrations [for Volcanic islands and parts of South America, 2d ed. (1876)].

Sends her article on Utricularia ["Is the valve of Utricularia sensitive?", Harper’s New Mon. Mag. 52 (1875): 382–7].

Proposes to write on Sarracenia ["Carnivorous plants of Florida", Harper’s New Mon. Mag. 53 (1876): 546–8, 710–14].

Sends his copies of CD’s MS of Cross and self-fertilisation and calls attention to errors in addition.

Has become Professor of Botany at Genoa.

Offers to send his paper on the necessity of out-crossing.

Sends his autograph.

Thanks CD for his authorisation for the résumé which LG will read to the Société Botanique de Lyon.

Insectivorous plants has made a sensation in France. Some are for, some against. Some doubt that a plant could absorb and assimilate the matter dissolved by the secretions. Asks CD if N. B. Ward’s method of culture might be used to answer the question definitively.

On communication noises used by domestic poultry.

CD’s servant submits estimate for work to be done on pantry.

Thanks for letter of 21st.

When the curious Salvia arrives, CD will have it carefully planted. Interested in seeing its flowers.

Caroline [Wedgwood] has been ill for the last 20 months.

James Paget to be consulted about William Darwin’s brain concussion.

Thanks for a letter describing variation in chickens.

Has had a cold. Salvia hasn't come yet. Will look for orchids tomorrow. Will send off bull's-horn acacia on Monday or Tuesday.

Reports his discovery of the behaviour of protoplasm in teasel cells.

Asks her to send seeds from a flower in the garden at Hopedene, and the name of a dwarf crimson Oxalis.

Expresses appreciation of the house, which the Darwins have borrowed.

The Salvia has arrived.

Has found several fly orchids coming in flower, but no Cephalanthera or Musk.

Cannot do any teazel work.

Anthelme Thozet has sent him a lot of Ophideres.

Encloses essay by Haeckel criticising Pangenesis [Die Perigenesis der Plastidule (1876)]. Discusses Haeckel’s theory of inheritance.

Asks about the Physiological Society.

Discusses FD’s observations on the protrusion of protoplasmic masses by cells of the teasel. Suggests analogy with amoeba. "I would work at this subject if I were you, to the point of death."