Accepts CD’s offer to send numbers of Kosmos.

WEG thinks the evidence from Homer’s text is conclusive that his "discrimination of colour was as defective as his sense of form and of motion was exact and lively".

Sends seeds of plants for CD to elucidate floral anatomy.

Sends plant specimens for CD’s examination for genetic affinity with Drosera rotundifolia

Asks for key and letter to be sent to him at the New University Club in London.

CD awarded honorary LL.D. degree by Cambridge University. [See 11212.]

Enlists CD’s support for a marine biological research institution to be built soon on Jersey.

Gives a detailed description of the "Colorado Giant" found near Pueblo, alleged to be a fossil man with a tail. [See also 11272.]

FD has sent proofs; nutating of Ricinus; Horace Darwin and the wormograph.

Writes again about arrangements for the honorary degree ceremony.

Has been working on tides, which he is almost certain have altered the obliquity of the ecliptic.

Sends extract reporting elephants that get drunk on a plant.