Testimonial for James Archer, who leaves CD’s service after six months.
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Testimonial for James Archer, who leaves CD’s service after six months.
A cheque written out for FD has never been presented to CD’s bankers.
Thinks SJOH is right not to return to Down. Asks him to forward certain documents. Hopes final arrangements will soon be made for a resident clergyman in Down.
Congratulations on birth of daughter. CD used to dread birth-time.
Sexual selection has turned out to be a large subject.
Sends second lot of grass grown from locust dung pellets from Natal.
Has been looking at the school accounts. Has any interest been paid to S. J. O’H. Horsman this year? CD will keep accounts temporarily; he has not yet received from Horsman the balance in hand from last year.
On Pour le Mérite; JDH has made him think more highly of it.
Messiah is the one thing he would like to hear again, but thinks his soul might be too dried up now to appreciate it. Sometimes hates science for making him "a withered leaf" for everything else.
Frank [Darwin] now doing botany seriously.
Thanks for name of grass.
Plans to go to Isle of Wight on 17 July.
Frank cannot come to Kew, as he will be reading this long vacation at Cambridge.
Delighted with Bentham’s Presidential Address [Linnean Society, 1868].
Reports the whereabouts of S. J. O’H. Horsman, who has failed to pay for an organ he ordered.
"Though next Spring will be rather late, I do not think it will be too late, & if in your power to send me some living specimens of Trox sabulosus, I shd. be greatly indebted to you.––-"
Sorry JJW cannot visit.
Will go to sea-side for five weeks at end of July.
Does Vidua have double annual moult? [See Descent 2: 181.]