"Charles Darwin Down, Kent April 2d. 1877; With Mr Darwin’s compliments. – "

Sends MS [of Forms of flowers]. Since sale is likely to be small, Murray may not want to publish it on usual terms. CD thinks it may be his last book and asks Murray to publish it on most favourable terms he can afford.

Thanks for Saxifraga. CD had shown in Insectivorous plants [pp. 345–7] that this genus had some powers of absorption.

Thanks for membership of Zeeland Scientific Society at Middelburg.

Thanks GHL for a copy of his Physical basis of mind [1877].

Discusses locks and window-fastenings, which CD has discovered are not included in the contract for alterations to the house at Down, and a cornice in a passage-way..

CD regrets not being able to see JDH.

"Frank has sent the cards here."

Thanks for ESM’s address ["What American zoologists have done for evolution", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 25 (1876)].

J. A. Allen’s work is important as apparently showing change through direct action of [external] conditions.

CD has given up trying to understand E. D. Cope and Alpheus Hyatt on acceleration and retardation.

CD has sent the pig’s foot to William Henry Flower to examine.

CD submits his paper ["A biographical sketch of an infant", Collected papers 2: 191–200] for possible publication.

Thanks for a copy of VC’s Théorie du Fatalisme (Theory of fatalism; Conta 1877).

Thanks for GOS’s memoir on Brisinga [1875].

Is honoured by CGS’s dedication [see 10942].

His observation of the dorsal eyes of Onchidium is interesting and surprising.