My dear Sir,

I should very much like to see Fritz Müller’s article in Kosmos of Dec. if you will kindly send it to me by post. I returned the No. you were good enough to send me on Oct. 22^nd. a few days after you sent it. I hope it has not been lost in the post. A letter accompanied it.² If you cannot find it please inform me what No. it was & I will take immediate steps to replace it.

I have not yet succeeded in finding a publisher for Weismanns essays— Van Voorst & Murray are both afraid to touch it & my time has been so much occupied that I have not had leisure to push enquiries in other directions.³

The entomological notes which I submitted to you some time since will appear with some additions in the Feb. No. of the “Ann. & Mag. of Nat. Hist.”⁴

I beg to direct your attention to the forthcoming Part IV of the “Trans. Ent. Soc.” The “Proceedings” bound up with it contain a great deal of matter relating to stridulation & is important with reference to your discussion of this phenomenon in the “Descent of Man”. I have been talking over the subject with Wood-Mason this evening & he is anxious to submit to your consideration certain views of the subject which he has broached in his paper on Mygale stridulans (a copy of which he will send you).⁵

I am anxious to get recruits for the ranks of the Entom. Soc.⁶ & should be glad to see your son Mr. Francis Darwin in our list of Members. Would he do me the favour of allowing me to propose him at the next meeting Jan. 16^th.?

Yours very faithfully, | R. Meldola.

Wishing you the compliments of the season.