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Comments on J. T. Moggridge’s article on the fertilisation of Fumaria capreolata [Nature 9 (1874): 423].

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Thanks an unknown correspondent for the 4th edition of his 'remarkable work'.

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CD has observed hundreds of primrose flowers cut off their stalks, and conjectures that this was done by birds to obtain the nectar. Asks readers of Nature in England and abroad whether primroses are subject to such destruction in their localities.

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Cancelled: third-party letter from ’ETS’.

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Encloses a statement and circular he has been asked to send to JL.

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Regrets that a cut [for Descent] does not do justice to TWW’s original drawing and if it cannot be improved then CD will have to omit it. [Refers to fig. 60 in Descent (1874).]

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Petition to protect gigantic tortoises on the Mascarene.

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Sends old Japanese picture suggesting evolution, found by Charles Longfellow.

Is pleased to hear CD attended a séance [18 Jan 1874]; asks for his views about communication among spirits.

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Is willing to sell the land CD wants for £300.

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Thanks for JL’s willingness to sell land.

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Wants some plants for observation and for experimentation on their powers of movement.

Asks WTT-D to make observations on plants with sensitive stamens or pistil.

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Has finished corrections for 2d edition of Descent – "as hard work as I have ever had in my life". Estimates it is 40 pages longer than 1st edition.

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Subscribes to a reprint of Pieter Boddaert’s Table des planches enluminéez d’histoire naturelle [check ‘éez’!?] [1874].

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Many thanks for Boddaert [see 9389].

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Hopes to visit CD during a stay in London.

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Just back from Gold Coast.

Would like to become a member of the Royal Institution.

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His gratitude for CD’s gift. An account of his difficulties with the Zoological Station and his health.

F. M. Balfour has told him that CD would like to see the question of complemental males in cirripedes studied again. AD would like to enter the field and to study the whole morphological development of cirripedes.

Describes the interest in embryological work in Russia and Germany.

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C. V. Riley’s case of Pronuba moth and the fertilisation of Yucca, is the most wonderful case of fertilisation ever published [Am. Nat. 7 (1873): 619–23].

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Is organising an appeal for the Naples Zoological Station.

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Has just read Journal of researches and has been charmed out of his anti-Darwinian prejudice.