Thanks AG for information [unspecified]; so trifling an error will not alter his opinion that AG is "the most accurate of men".

Asks AG to sign an enclosure [see 9291].

Signs Robert Swinhoe’s certificate [for the Royal Society] with pleasure.

Has given in Descent 2: 12, an account from AG of the brushes on the sides of Monacanthus; has now learned of brush-like scales on the males of Mallotus. Asks whether the two genera are related.

Comments on several points in Descent,

doubts facts about Monacanthus brushes

and the two Cyprinidae males attending the female when spawning.

Encloses a circular [9384?] to explain the predicament he is in. Asks whether AG can get anyone at the British Museum, other than Owen, to join J. E. Gray in signing.

Believes the account of the Mallotus in American Naturalist [5 (1871): 119] is trustworthy.

Invites AG to stay at Down.

Thanks for recent edition of CD’s Journal of researches.

Has been appointed to a Keepership at British Museum.

Rejoices at AG’s "honourable & important" position [Keeper of the Zoological Department, British Museum].

Has signed certificates.

His specimen catalogue has not been returned from Cambridge museum. If not lost, will answer query.

Discusses spider specimens.

Pigeons’ skins dispatched today.

Sends MS about pigeons.

No summary available.

Thanks AG for his kind note and returns his good wishes.

Anxious that AG should consider a memorial [for A. R. Wallace]. Makes arrangements to avoid delay.

Sends memorial [for A. R. Wallace] for AG to sign. Asks whether AG will forward it to Owen; CD cannot send it as he has not spoken to him for 20 years.

Has signed and returned memorial [for Wallace]; does not know where to find Owen.