Pleased that JC-B will review Expression.

Fears he will not be able to improve the book with JC-B’s "wonderfully curious" photographs because Murray printed such a large edition.

Would be glad to have JC-B’s notes on inheritance – "a most important subject".

Distressed by the poor health of GHD and Horace. Asks them to come home.

Much obliged for seeds. Will expose seeds to chemical vapours.

Comments on JTM’s spider experiments.

Is glad and proud to honour the memory of Adam Sedgwick [d. 1873].

CD has discovered correspondent intends to present a petition to the House of Commons on which CD’s is the sole signature. Asks that his name be erased unless other signatures are added.

Does not understand TM’s views on sex and vitality.

Agrees no real "essences" in genera, only broken groups of species.

Sends £10 subscription for James Murie.

Thanks them for their kind letter and interest in his work. Sends photograph.

Thanks for Indian [Medical] Gazette. Comments on article.

Reports that he has not received JSBS’s book on histology and physiology [Sanderson ed., Handbook for the physiological laboratory (1873)], which Edward Emmanuel Klein told CD’s son was to be sent. He asks for information so that he may thank Dr Klein. [Klein and Michael Foster were co-authors with JSBS.]

He has returned the Gazette to Dr T. L. Brunton. [See 8825.]