Has forwarded some plants of Nitella opaca. Has observed their struggle for existence for several years in the gravel-pit pools at Mitcham.

Is trying to get some cobra poison for CD.

Reminds CD of three cards JLA sent in February for CD to sign and date and write his good wishes on.

Solicits CD’s subscription to the Rolleston Memorial Fund, which will be used for a post-graduate prize at Oxford and Cambridge.

Thanks CD for contribution to Rolleston Fund

and for congratulations on his Professorship at Oxford.

Sends fact about earthworms.

A friend once "caught" an oyster while fishing, which confirms CD’s note ["On the dispersal of freshwater bivalves", Collected papers 2: 276–8].

Sends more Trifolium resupinatum.

In France as in England there is indignation at the insults Decaisne suffered in the last years of his life.

Charles Martins has lost his Professorship at Montpellier.