Cannot lay his hands on JH's paper at the moment. Family is going on well. Will send details of the secret code of Army signals.

Thanks for informatiion about birds and for copies of the Cottage Gardener (26 March 1861). Discusses ancestor of domestic fowl.

Does not think much of the arguments of the Duke [of Argyll], though liberal and complimentary to himself.

THH’s Athenæum letter ["Man and the apes", 30 Mar 1861, p. 433] almost too civil. What a thorn THH must be to Owen.

CD never dreamed primroses did not abound with DO; apologises for trouble and sends flowers.

Will repay DO for cost of Cypripedium and for the Dionaea, if any can be got.

Details of peculiarities in poultry.

Is examining wild varieties of rabbit.

Thanks for JH's paper 'On a New Projection of the Sphere.' Wonders why no one has discussed this important problem before.

CD urges HWB to write on his travels;

asks for facts on domestic variations;

is pleased by HWB’s acceptance of the theory of sexual selection.

He still believes in migration from north to south during glacial age.

Hopes Bates will publish a paper on mimicry.

Affectionate regards to Henslow.

No summary available.

Primula sibirica seems to be the only non-dimorphic species. Has made over one hundred Primula crosses.

Regrets Henslow’s illness.

Sends two letters from G. Lincecum about ants ("perhaps the most marvellous instinct ever recorded") for possible publication. [See Gideon Lincecum, "The habits of the ""agricultural ants"" of Texas", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 6 (1862): 29–31.]

A bee’s sting always remains behind.

Requests information about Japanese and Chinese encyclopedias,

about the rarity of fowls with black feathers,

and about date of the king Thouthmosis III.

The stinging of bees and wasps contrasted.

Sends photographic copy of mural tablet TW placed in chapel of St. John's College to honor TW's late uncle, Thomas Catton.

Thanks JC for pamphlets.

"I do not believe in Metempsychosis nor in Genesis – & you are growing so orthodox, that you will end your days, I believe, in believing in the Tower of Babel–."

Questions arising from JH's 'On a New Projection of the Sphere.' Will send his solution if JH is interested.

Sends Mathematical Monthly with JH's portrait and catalog of his writings. Smithsonian will send rain data JH wants. Discusses politics and hopes England will help break the cotton monopoly and thereby end slavery.

Asks DO to identify enclosed Fumaria or Corydalis flower, with springing hood adaptation.

No summary available.