Thanks CD for note on his book on the sense of beauty [A primer of art (1882)].

Views of Huxley and Spencer on consciousness.

Has identified the shell, now separated from the beetle. Sends both to CD.

F. M. Balfour getting on better in hospital.

Thanks CD for helping to get him elected to the Athenaeum.

Asks for CD’s opinion on certain theistic ideas. If spontaneous generation from inorganic material is denied, then life must be derived from some eternal being.

No summary available.

Encloses MS on sexual selection acting on street dogs of Beirut [MS of "On the modification of a race of Syrian street dogs", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 25 (1882): 367–70, published with a prefatory notice by CD.

Gives information about the Great Western Railway dividend.

Thanks for Earthworms.

Sends further details about the beetle and mussel sent to CD.

The French government plan to set up an international laboratory at Villefranche; JB wonders whether CD would express support for the scheme.

J. Decaisne has died.

Sends a few rare seeds of Trifolium resupinatum.

Has found a frog with bivalve attached to hind leg.

Sends an account of a combat between a frog and a worm.

Sends a dividend cheque.

News about his dividends.

Twelve "Revised Directions" for CD’s treatment, mainly diet.

CD invited to [Science Defence Association] meeting at Royal College of Physicians.

Sends his measurement of an unusually large worm-casting.

Seeking contributions to assist the widow of C. T. Beke.