Murray is willing to make same arrangement with D. Appleton for Climbing plants as for Insectivorous plants.

There will be no difficulty about corrections for reprint of Descent, providing new matter fills same space as old.

Hexadactyly. Regrowth of removed supernumerary digits.

Giovanni Canestrini should be reminded that before any plates for another of CD’s books can be sent, payment must be made for those already sent.

Thanks for Insectivorous plants.

Believes Lepidoptera are of greater importance as fertilisers in alpine regions than in lowlands.

The famous stone pits of Ohningen are for sale.

Sends papers concerned with [copyright?] registration for French and German editions [of Insectivorous plants].

Encloses specimens of type for Variation [2d ed.].

Thinks Climbing plants [2d ed.] had better be kept in type; 1500 copies to be printed, with stereotypes to be made for Appleton.

Has re-examined her sister’s extra finger. Reports her sister’s recollections regarding its regrowth.

It would be an advantage to start printing vol. 1 of Variation [2d ed.] at once, if CD can release it. Knotty problem: the number of copies to be printed.

Encloses copy of description of an outgrown stump. Refers to letter [missing] in which CD reports on a case of amputation. Would like to check J. Simpson’s cases before thinking everything is settled.

Accepts offer of stereotype plates from Murray for Climbing plants, and will give same terms.

Has only just made Insectivorous plants ready. Long and favourable review just appeared in Times.

Wants to publish Variation and so will approach Judd & Co. [publishers of first U. S. edition (1868)].

Discusses deafness in white cats. Every blue-eyed, white cat WDF has known has been deaf.

Sends his review of Insectivorous plants in the Pall Mall Gazette of Vienna.

JDH reports his battle with Lord Henry Lennox over whether to locate new Herbarium on the Queen’s or public part of Garden.

Digestive fluid in insectivorous plants. RLT’s work on tails.

The unreliability of the work of J.-B. Legrain on consanguineous marriages [Recherches critiques et experimentales relatives aux marriages consanguins, extrait du Bull. Acad. R. Med. Belg. 2d ser. 9, no. 3].

Thanks for Insectivorous plants.

Describes difficulties in launching Darwinian journal.

Mentions recent criticism of evolution in Germany.

Would like to translate essay on marriage between relatives [by G. H. Darwin, see 9487].

CD’s suspicions that Legrain falsified experiments on interbred rabbits are like second sight. Has sent a copy of the letter to A. H. Huth.

Henry Sidgwick and A. J. Balfour are "spiritualising" again.

Acknowledges presentation copy of Insectivorous plants.

Studying Drosera on vacation in Bohemia. Thinks CD has erred in considering "aggregation" to have occurred in the protoplasm. Suggests it is result of exosmosis of vacuole.

Doubts ostrich descended from reptiles. Its ancestors true birds. Of course, all birds descended from reptiles. Compares foetus of birds to that of reptiles.

Errata in first edition of Insectivorous plants.