Many thanks for present of a dog: he will arrange its collection from the train whenit arrives in London.

He is correcting proofs of Descent, and will send GC a copy.

Testimonial letter hoping that CWT will be successful in getting Chair of Natural History at Edinburgh.

Regrets that Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen has already translated his new book into Dutch.

Protests against FJW making the struggle for existence still more odious by calling it ‘selfish competition’.

Thanks for sending the photographs of hairy people at the Burmese court.

Thanks for the information about the action of roots on rocks.

Asks for information about the title and date of Semper’s essay disputing CD’s theory of coral reefs.

Confirms receipt of a book that had been lost by the Post Office (Vol. 1 Der Darwinismus und die Naturforschung Newtons und Cuviers (Darwinism and the natural researches of Newton and Cuvier; Wigand 1874–7).

Asks CHM to send his paper.

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

Thanks for copy of Claus’s book, Untersuchungen zur Erforschung der genealogischen Grundlage des Crustaceen-Systems: ein Beitrag zur Descendenzlehre (Studies on the investigation of the genealogical foundation of the Crustacea: a contribution to the theory of descent; Claus 1876).

Thanks for Japanese book and for HNM’s papers on observations made during Challenger voyage.

Would be pleased if HNM visited him.

Thanks for Japanese books, and papers by HNM.

Comments on Peripatus.

Not disappointed at what William Thomson says about evolution.

Would like to see the photographs.

Was glad to read HNM’s paper on the New Zealand Peripatus.

Some years ago he would have been delighted to take up the Cirripedia collected on the Challenger expedition, but feels that the subject has largely passed out of his mind.

Thanks him for the 9th Report [on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of Missouri]. "What a pretty illustration of a sub-rudimentary organ is that of the saw-fly!"

Thanks for HNM’s offer to dedicate book [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].

Thanks for his translation of [Anton] Kerner [Flowers and their unbidden guests: the translation revised and edited by W. Ogle (1878)].

Asks MN about trustworthiness of Leopold Würtenberger. Would like to aid LW financially in his work.

Thanks for HNM’s [Notes by a naturalist on the "Challenger" (1879)].