"My health got so bad I could do nothing at Down".

Gives information about migration of male and female birds.

Thanks for [July 1869] issue of Quarterly Review.

Comments on 5th edition of the Origin [1869];

preparation of second edition of Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte [1870].

The reception of CD’s theory. Mentions support of Pieter Harting and Michael Sars.

EH’s research on calcareous sponges and plans to publish monograph on them.

Asks for reference to Louis Agassiz’s views on embryos indicating ancestral structures.

Observations on expression and colour of beard and hair in natives of India.

Information about sexes of sheep at time of castration. Mortality of male lambs higher than that of females.

Observations on flies visiting Epipactis.

Introduces his son Alexander; believes CD will find him "more tractable" on certain questions than LA himself is.

Responds to questions about sex ratios at birth and mortality in either sheep or cattle before eighteen months.

Thanks him for his excellent observations [on Epipactis?]; would like WED to watch for some large insect visiting the plant.

Comments on WO’s paper on Salvia [Pop. Sci. Rev. 8 (1869): 261–73], which he admires.

WO very gratified by CD’s complimentary remarks on his Salvia article.

Simeon Habel of New York has returned from Galapagos. CD has asked him to send any plants to JDH.

Reading Nägeli convinces him that it is all-important to learn all about polymorphic or protean genera for the "Laws of Variability".

New Zealand genera are interesting and have perplexed him for years.

Has read paper on snakes. Thinks it is not fascination but fear that makes the victim fall into snake’s power.

Asks for a testimonial.

Drosophyllum lusitanicum.

Believes principle of natural selection can be more widely applied.

Flower structure of Geranium.

Bees visiting Epipactis.

Would be glad to send GRG a testimonial of his abilities as a naturalist, but is not qualified to express opinion on his works in ornithology or entomology.

Gives information on the proportions of sexes of certain moths. [See Descent 1: 313.]

Has already referred Haeckel’s request to J. S. Bowerbank.

Has lost track of collectors and naturalists "by grace of the dredge" because of other work and ""the great question of "Darwinismus" which is such a worry to us all"".

Family health.

Appends an eight-year list of lambs for CD’s private information.