Is impressed by the scale of Torbitt’s experiments. Discusses financial assistance. If Torbitt’s work succeeds, they will be amply repaid.

Comments on the progress of Torbitt’s experiments.

JC and Farrer are impressed with Torbitt’s papers. Will continue financial support.

Finds CD was correct in Variation: hybrid bees tend to sting more often than pure-bred bees.

Preparing a second edition of the chapter on the origin of cultivated plants in his Géographie botanique. The work done since 1855 confirms his opinions.

Thanks for Movement in plants. Praises the terms CD introduces, but criticises CD’s use of the teleological word "purpose".

Outlines his efforts to study the inheritance of characters in his family. F. Galton overemphasises the inheritance of good qualities.

AdeC thinks Monographiae phanerogamarum may be of some use to CD for the most nearly correct names to adopt.

Reports extract of spurge [Euphorbia] killing earthworms.

Is dedicating his Foundations of ethics to CD.

ARC found a frog in New Zealand; contradicts CD [in Origin, 6th ed. (1872), p. 350.]

No summary available.

Requests interview to get CD’s views on stages in evolution of the eye for a talk he is to give at a health congress. [Address to working men & women, 17 December 1881.] in Transactions of the Brighton health congress

Thanks for F. M. Balfour reference, which will serve purpose of his lecture on evolution of the eye.

Will be happy to translate CD’s new book [Movement in plants]. Asks how large the book will be.

Some sheets [of Movement in plants] are missing. Is delighted with its "lesson of methods of observation patience and thought".

Discusses Ernst Krause’s publication of an extract from Earthworms translated into German in the journal Kosmos.

Koch [of Schweizerbart, publisher of CD’s works in Germany and also publisher of Kosmos] has asked JVC to translate Earthworms and send one chapter of it to Kosmos for advance separate publication. He thinks a chapter on the practical work of the earthworms would be most interesting to the general reader.

Lists errata in Earthworms, which he is translating.

No summary available.

Has read Earthworms and suggests, as an architect, that leaf linings protect worm burrow from the worm’s rapid movements.

Requests permission to quote Journal of researches passages in a school text-book [Relfe Brothers model reading-books … in prose and verse (1880–3)]. John Murray has previously refused.