Their mutual friend James Sivewright had given ES plan for boat swing to combat Lady Sullivan's seasickness. Having sold boat in which swing was built, but planning to sail to Mediterranean, ES hopes JH will send another copy of plan.

Is doing a British Flora [The student’s flora of the British Islands (1870)], for students, more scientific and more complete than former editions.

His opinion of Bentham’s [British] Flora [1858].

On Croll’s extension of glaciers – a huge relief to get rid of simultaneous cooling of the whole globe.

Watson’s garbling of passage in JDH’s Flora Indica is unprincipled.

Delay in translating Für Darwin.

Comments on plan to repeat CD’s experiments on illegitimate offspring.

FM’s observations on stridulation.

Asks whether the spurs in the young of Pavo muticus are developed earlier or later in life than in the young males of Pavo cristatus.

Notes strengths and weakness of heliometer for observing double stars. Calls it 'laborious, troublesome instrument.'