Tells correspondent how to locate Michael Faraday’s widow [Sarah Barnard].

CD is obliged for a note he will use for a new [2d] edition of Variation [1875].

Reports that Variation is out of print. Suggests means of obtaining a copy.

No uniform edition of CD’s works has appeared in England.

Explains that there is no need for the addressee to apologise.

Sends photograph.

Agrees that time alone can do nothing to modify species.

Is aware that the Papaveraceae are self-fertile but feels this does not preclude an occasional cross.

Sends signed photo of himself.

Has published only one paper in Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society, "Parallel roads of Glen Roy" [Collected papers 1: 87–137]. His conclusions have proved erroneous.

Asks for copy of [unspecified] essay, but will not answer it.

Reports the possible extinction of the Macartney Rose.

Thanks for the photographs of disks of stone, but not to trouble to send casts, as he will not work on expression again.

Encloses a photograph and [?].

Strongly disapproves of the blackballing of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society. States the reasons for his disapproval and hopes they will be considered.

Complies with correspondent’s request; encloses photographs of himself.

Letter of reference giving his opinion of the character of a man who has been his footman for a year.

Sends autograph.

Thanks correspondent for present of book [unspecified].

Sends his autograph.

Thanks for sending the impressions of the gems, but, because CD is ignorant of archaeology, the recipient should not send one for inspection.

Sends his autograph.