Can CD send sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation as previously promised? OZ writing article on subject ["Darwin über Kreuzung und Selbstbefruchtung im Pflanzenreiche", Das Ausland (1877)].

German Darwinists preparing a Darwin album with photographs of themselves as gift.

Sorry the corrections were so tedious, and offers to do revises.

Drosera plants grown with insects excluded have developed normally.

He has never observed the straight line flight routes in male humble-bees that CD reports.

His last letter was in error: alpine Bombus terrestris does break into some flowers.

Thanks for papers and letter; has been working in the mornings on teasel.

Sending specimens of Drosera grown without insects.

Forwards a flower from a Mrs Crawshay, who sees its "evident struggle to become double as another instance of gradual evolution".

Would like sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation if it is not already out.

His brother, George, reports from Calcutta a case of a man whose hands are divided like a cow’s foot.

JDH back from his honeymoon.

Finds he has gout, as his father and grandfather had.

Asks whether CD’s conclusions on cross- and self-fertilising plants agree with his own as set out in a notice in Nature [14 (1876): 543–4].

Sends Drosera plants and details of treatment that led them to form normal leaves when grown without insects.

Sending Drosera plants by post instead of rail because they are rotting.

Thanks for CD’s book [Cross and self-fertilisation] and information on protandry and protogyny.

Health better, but paralysis lingers.

Discussing a purchase of land.

JDH looking for Hoya for CD.

Hookers tried to visit Down on foot, but weather was too inclement.