Has heard CD is about to be proposed again for the Académie Française, but Huxley is proposed at the same time and may succeed against CD "as being more orthodox!"
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Has heard CD is about to be proposed again for the Académie Française, but Huxley is proposed at the same time and may succeed against CD "as being more orthodox!"
Cambridge University will offer CD an honorary degree.
Writes in detail about Cambridge offer of the honorary LL.D.
Loss of water from leaf surfaces; action of a still air layer.
Proposal for CD’s LL.D.
Writes again about arrangements for the honorary degree ceremony.
Has been working on tides, which he is almost certain have altered the obliquity of the ecliptic.
Will look for worm-castings in the cloisters,
and will send CD items from the Cambridge papers on the honorary degree.
Has hit on a possible fallacy in W. Thomson’s theory of secular cooling of the earth.
Asks CD if he would like to sign GHD’s Royal Society proposal for membership.