The Royal Society have returned RLT’s Nepenthes paper and will not have it read because of unfavourable reports from referees.

Is elated by his work on the alteration in the earth’s axis and the displacement of the poles. [See 10689.]

Thanks FD for the volumes of Revista Botanica [1874–5].

Thanks Naturalist Society and Club of Northampton for his election.

CD preparing new English and German editions of his early geology [of the voyage of the Beagle] books. Asks for Hooker’s copies as he no longer has his own.

Apologises for placing CD in the objectionable position of sponsor for a rejected paper. RLT has gone over old ground in ignorance.

Asks to show GJR’s letter to George Darwin and other sons. A secret cannot be well kept.

Thanks for the offer of JEH’s manuscript notes, but he is not planning to work on the subject again.

Forwards copies of CD’s geology books.

Trip to London delayed.

Asks for titles of papers on structure of Nepenthes for use by R. L. Tait. Mentions paper by RLT.

Sends Mind. Henry Sidgwick’s article ["The theory of evolution in its application to practice", Mind 1 (1876): 52–67] is so clear it makes CD feel "a muddle-headed man". But he disagrees with Sidgwick on the origin of morality within tribes.

Is sure mathematical discussion of elevation of continents will be valued by geologists.

Requests permission to call upon EF any morning from Saturday through Tuesday.

Will call tomorrow morning.

No summary available.

Gives permission for a Spanish translation of the Origin and wishes it success.

Congratulates GJR on lecture ["The physiology of the nervous system of Medusa", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 8 (1875–8): 166–77].

Sends Thiselton-Dyer’s suggestions for references to Nepenthes,

and gives his opinion on what will influence the Royal Society’s Council in considering RLT’s candidacy.

Thanks for references for R. L. Tait.