Sends geese to CD.

Crossbreeding of Chinese and common geese; believes they may be same species.

Thanks for letter and book [J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie (1876)].

Thanks CD for his subscription to the bust in honour of Theodor Schwann.

He has been working hard at Kew for two days.

Has forwarded what he believes to be a new species of Solanum.

Sends photographs showing expressions in a young boy.

Requests support for his appointment as Superintendent of Epping Forest.

Working on a book [Australasia. Stanford’s compendium of geography and travel, edited and extended by A. R. Wallace (1879)].

No summary available.

Apologises for his error over the Solanum.

Thanks CD for his good wishes; JT believes he will increase yield and disease-resistance by his crossing and selection.

Drosera species vary in form depending upon conditions. Send specimens

Inquires about a rumour that CD or Francis Darwin is preparing a new book on the "Power of inheritance".

Tells CD of his new periodical: Zoologische Anzeiger.

Sends fruit of date-palm which has not been impregnated by pollen from a male.

Has read Origin, which "puts everything straight".

Sends an example of natural selection: survival of water-buffalo eating Indian corn submerged by flooding might depend on how long animal could keep nose under water. Encloses measurements of this behaviour.

Forwards a copy of the Student’s Magazine, which contains the first of a series of articles on CD and his work.

Thanks for CD’s support for [Epping Forest] appointment. Doubts about the proposed management.

Thanks for CD’s support for [Epping Forest] appointment. Doubts about the proposed management.

Observations on insectivorous plants.

Thanks CD for his efforts to get HM’s book, Die Befruchtung der Blumen [1873], translated into English. [See Fertilisation of flowers, translated by D’Arcy W. Thompson, preface by C. Darwin (1883).]

Will soon return to his observations on insects in general and bees in particular.