William's career, health, fees at sanatorium; wireless telegraphy; X-rays.

No summary available.

Sending copy of Pall Mall Magazine containing interview with and photos of ARW; description of Diplodocus skeleton at the Natural History Museum, donated by Carnegie; Birds of Paradise; meeting at NHM with Jordan and Rothschild who had brought some New Guinea butterflies for him to see, invitation from Rothschild to spend a week at Tring, may go in the summer; emergence of three small longicorn beetles from a clump of orchids sent from Buenos Ayres by John Hall, two caught and identified by British Museum as a species of Ibidion not in its collection; capture of a large orange and brown moth or butterfly which Rothschild thinks a Castnia, in the orchid house and a chrysalis on same orchid as the one harbouring the longicorns, has sent moth and chrysalis to Prof Poulton for the Oxford collection, amazement that the same plant should produce both a rare moth and beetle after a year in a greenhouse.

About Pascoe's collections. About World of Life article in the Fortnightly - comments on a new part of his argument. Comment on Times article on Darwinian Centenary written by Bather.

ARW has been reading Mrs Reid's paper in the ?Linnean Society Journal about disintegrating peat. ARW has some brought from Somersetshire and Ireland. Asks for reference in recent book to a summary of present knowledge of Palaeontology, like the "Table of British Fossils" at the end of Lyell's Students Elements.

Discusses a press cutting sent by Macdonald on the spiritualist medium consulted by Abraham Lincoln; an American book recently published on Lincoln's spiritualism.