CD’s observations [for Insectivorous plants] seem to indicate that the same species of Genlisea may bear two kinds of bladders, so he asks for rhizomes and leaves of three species to test this possibility.

Describes accounts of potato grafting in a German journal.

Discusses subscriptions for the Naples Zoological Station.

Cannot visit now because of work on Insectivorous plants.

Thanks correspondent for article on CD in Gardeners’ Chronicle.

Discusses function of the eyebrows in protecting the eyes from sweat.

Mentions notices in the Nation.

Is sending plants from cut-leaved vine.

Invites GJR to visit.

"When in presence of my ladies do not talk about experiments on animals."

August Weismann is interested in JJW’s experiments on birds and the caterpillars they eat.

Thanks JP for volume of his lectures [Clinical lectures and essays, ed. H. Marsh (1875)].

Mentions "vivisection question".

Comments on WM’s paper about ostrich feathers.

Asks questions about earthworms.

Thanks FS for his book [Kant und Darwin].

Sends regards to Haeckel.

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

Regarding Cytisus graft with yellow flowers, CD thinks nurseryman has sold Cytisus adami to JJW’s brother in place of C. purpureus. This explains apparent "sport". [P.S. on envelope:] C. purpureus seeds freely. C. adami never does.

Discusses revisions for Variation, 2d ed.

Discusses experiments involving graft-hybrids.

Alludes to Pangenesis.

Comments on GJR’s experiments.

The question is whether additional digits possess power of regrowth beyond the ordinary. James Paget has convinced CD that they do not. CD must alter what he has published. [See Variation, 2d. ed., 2: 459.]

Thanks SN for his explanation of vines.

Discusses SN’s observation on roots secreting carbonic acid.

Will propose GJR for membership in Linnean Society.

Discusses GJR’s grafting experiments.

CD is circulating certificate proposing GJR for membership in Linnean Society.

Discusses hybrid potatoes from Germany.