Glad the house and cottage are completed. Hopes there is a good-sized garden with the cottage.
Please remember himself and CD to FH’s father, John Higgins.
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Glad the house and cottage are completed. Hopes there is a good-sized garden with the cottage.
Please remember himself and CD to FH’s father, John Higgins.
Sent a copy of Orchis book to Gentry. Mentions Morley’s article on Diderot. Asks for another copy of the new edition of Descent.
Asks CD whether it is worth sending money to prop up the Index.
Returns agreement signed and witnessed.
Will discuss with CD at Christmas the possibility of purchasing some land with delapidated housing.
Sends some money on behalf of himself and his father to help with FEA’s problems with the Index.
Sends notes made in June 1867, on Rhamnus catharticus and R. lanceolatus. Encloses diagrams and measurements relating to pollen size in R. lanceolatus.
Purchases cigarettes for CD.
Sends a pamphlet for FD and Ruck, who did not turn up for breakfast.
Recommends that CD buy a plot of land.
Discusses an experiment.
His dogs appear to have rabies.
Action of heavy rain on the leaves of Robinia.
Thanks for the copy of Orchids.
Staying with W. D. Fox on the Isle of Wight. Offers to find Pulmonaria plants.
Arrangements about a purchase of land.
Thanks CD for present of £300.
Asks for key and letter to be sent to him at the New University Club in London.
Discussing a purchase of land.
Pleased to hear about GHD’s paper at the Royal Society.
"Dia" [as a prefix] means "through, across".
WED’s wife would like to meet the Huxleys.
Extract from Athenæum 11 May [1878], p. 606, of R. I. Lynch on germination of the provision tree.