Thanks his cousin for lending two letters [to be used in Ernst Krause’s biography of Erasmus Darwin, their grandfather].

Thanks CD for the engraving, which has arrived.

Thanks for letter and articles: gratifying to hear that agriculturalists attend to his works.

Cannot decipher German writing so has stuck the address from the letter on the envelope.

Discusses his work on Dr Erasmus Darwin’s life.

In response to CD’s query, discusses sleep movements of plants. Recommends papers on subject.

Asks for identification of an Oxalis flower.

Oliver says Oxalis colorata is O. floribunda.

Asks for information about his grandfather’s influence on medical practice, to be used in his preface to Erasmus Darwin [1879, p. 107].

Regrets he has not given Zoonomia the attention it deserves. Informs CD that Erasmus Darwin may have anticipated a discovery about paralysis of vessels by exposure to heat [see Erasmus Darwin, p. 109].

Thanks for information about Erasmus Darwin and for lending journal.

There is a hyacinth growing upside down in Hankinson’s garden. Sends picture of it. Leslie Stephen knows of no worthwhile sources of information on Dr Erasmus Darwin.

Admires EH’s Freie Wissenschaft und freie Lehre [1878].

Virchow’s conduct is shameful.

Thanks FG for an extract [about Dr Erasmus Darwin?].

Will see CD in Worthing next week.

Has had an account of his experiments published. Sends CD some specimens of seedlings and tubers.