Discusses animal intelligence.

Advises GJR on acquiring monkey.

Sends book by Delboeuf [La psychologie (1876)].

Discusses spiritualism. Says Williams, the medium, is exposed as fraud.

Thanks him for plant specimens.

Asks about sowing Drosera seeds.

Thanks WCM for plant.

Mentions "your new room" at Down.

Urges publication of an exposure of Williams the spiritualist medium.

Comments on GJR’s article in Fortnightly Review ["The beginning of nerves", n.s. 24 (1878): 509–26].

Comments on "poor old" Edinburgh Review.

Thanks for account of Fuegians

and news about old "Beaglers".

Has been reading A. A. Brassey [Around the world in the yacht "Sunbeam" (1878)].

CD will visit tomorrow.

Encloses letter of recommendation for RIL [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge?]. [See 11770.]

Letter recommending R. I. Lynch [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge].

Comments on GJR’s anonymous book [A candid examination of theism (1878)]. Notes possible theological objections.

Describes findings of examination of geese with abnormal wings. Says old gander that sired geese is without injury or abnormality. Encloses his assistant’s report.

Says deformity of wings of geese is not related to injury to gander. Forwards a report on the birds [11717].

Sends copy of H. D. Lindemuth, "Vegetative Bastarderzeugung" [Landwirtsch. Jahrb. 7 (1878): 887–939].

Recommends article on "Brute and human intellect" by William James [J. Speculative Philos. 12 (1878): 236–78].

Discusses a chapter on design, written by WRG’s son [Percy Greg, The devil’s advocate (1878)]. Comments on the younger Greg’s criticisms of natural selection and evolution.