Asks about woodblocks of illustrations for Climbing plants [1875].

CD subscribes an additional £10.

Thanks TD for catalogue of his Cretacean fossils.

Regrets he cannot visit Brighton.

Thanks CL for copy of Antiquity of man [4th ed. (1873)]; will read the modified or new parts.

Printed memorandum giving reasons why there should be subsidy on a large scale of scientific research unencumbered with teaching.

Thanks for report on J. V. Carus’ lecture.

Glad to hear suspicion about J. H. Stirling groundless.

CD has not seen R. W. Emerson. In last two or three years has seen several Yankees. Saw a good deal of the Nortons [Charles Eliot and Susan Ridley Sedgwick].

Thanks EWL for his book about hydropathy [Old medicine and new (1873)].

Thanks correspondent for his kind and generous exertions [to get CD elected to French Academy?].

Comments on ability of recipient to move his scalp.

Orders salts of various metals; thinks chlorides (where soluble) would be better than nitrates.

Discusses apple specimens received from CL; reversion to crab state. Cites passage on subject in Variation.

Comments on letter from Mr Wood on inheritance in fruit-trees.

Would like to cross flowers of "Hawthornden" with many distinct varieties.

CD refuses an interview because of a severe headache, but wishes all success to the Gardeners’ Chronicle.

Sends Dionaea plant for experiment involving temperature.

Discusses hereditary character of hypermetropia. Notes views of F. C. Donders on the subject.

Is interested in comparative nutritive values of chondrin and gelatin. The former seems to excite Drosera more, though albumen does so to a higher degree than either. Also asks if chlorophyll is digested by animals; Drosera digests it hardly at all.

Discusses speech of parrots and starling. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 85 n.]

CD sends thanks for the honour conferred by his election as an honorary member, though ill health may prevent his taking advantage of the privileges granted.

Invites AC to visit.

Discusses meaning of term "sexual selection".

Comments on variability in males.

Regrets he cannot visit Oxford.

Comments on sketches in letter from JP [9360].