Has been looking at the school accounts. Has any interest been paid to S. J. O’H. Horsman this year? CD will keep accounts temporarily; he has not yet received from Horsman the balance in hand from last year.

JL’s Royal Institution lectures.

Would like to borrow CD’s carriage on polling day.

Arrangements for polling.

Further arrangements for polling. Everything looks well. [Ellen Lubbock notes, "he is too sanguine – ".]

JL’s failure to be elected to Parliament.

Thanks for the pamphlets; JL’s paper, "Primitive condition of man" [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 6 (1868): 328].

Down School funds.

Asks whether JL would be prepared to sign a petition on behalf of Miss Eliza Meteyard who is seeking a civil list pension.

Down School funds.

Asks for reference to Louis Agassiz’s views on embryos indicating ancestral structures.

Has been asked by Henry Powell [new vicar of Down] for help to build a house at Down; asks for CD’s advice.

Sexual differences in Labidocera darwinii, in Entomostraca, and Myriapoda.

On the antennae of Labidocera.

Size of sexes in Entomostraca.

Visiting arrangements.

Is glad CD likes the new edition [of Prehistoric times].

Has been lecturing in Scotland.