Wishes to republish CW’s review as pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].

Two sons will visit America. Hopes they may call on CW.

Letter of introduction for his sons [G. H. and Francis Darwin].

Buys ten shares in the Artizans, Labourers, & General Dwellings Co.

Doubts whether an experiment to test the durability of human bones would be worth while. Absence of such bones in post-glacial river-bed deposits does not weigh in the least on CD.

Glad CW has written on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].

Sure that CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)] will do cause good service.

Grateful for kindness to sons in America.

Thanks for note concerning JP’s new book [Geology of Oxford (1871)].

Sends enclosure for Captain Jones.

Comments on essay by E. D. Cope ["On the origin of genera", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20 (1868): 242–300].

Declines to join movement; has not sufficiently considered subject.

Discusses role of orbicular muscle and distended veins in eye in secretion of tears. Asks WB’s opinion.

Acknowledges payment from sale of his books.

CD has lost his reference to cross between gold and silver pheasants.

Comments on action of eyes in a person lost in meditation. Asks about Charles Bell’s explanation [in Anatomy of expression (1806, 1844)].

Delighted to have cloud of darkness removed by CW’s paper on phyllotaxy [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. n.s. 9 (1867–73): 379–415].

Has heard that Mivart will answer CW’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].

Thanks correspondent for an interesting paper [unspecified] and his kind remarks about CD’s work.

CD had forgotten Auguste Comte’s "striking observations" on relations of man to lower animals.

Orders books: J. R. Leifchild, The higher ministry of nature (1872);

Hermann Müller, The application of the Darwinian theory to flowers [(1872?), reprint from Am. Nat. 5 (1871): 271–97];

and a review by J. B. Hunter.

Thanks FCD for suggested deletions in MS of Expression. Declines offer from FCD to examine proofs also.

Comments on CL’s Principles of geology, 11th ed.

Discusses natural selection in man.

Comments on migration as a factor in evolution. Suggests pamphlet by August Weismann on the subject [Über den Einfluss der Isolierung (1872)].

Discusses books about cats and crosses in cats. Thanks her for her book on cats.

Thanks him for interesting letter from a Mr Wood on heredity in fruit-trees.