Invites GRW and his family to visit.
Invites GRW and his family to visit.
Arrangements for Emma’s return to Down.
CD has been "wonderfully strong".
Asks if J. E. Gray has returned [printing] estimates for Zoology.
Henslow has some Galapagos plants which he forgot to forward to JDH.
Sends HD a reference to human lice from Charles White 1799.
Discusses intestinal worms among humans.
Comments on origin of human races.
Sends a quotation from de Vallemont’s Curiosities of nature and art in husbandry and gardening (1707) showing that the value of saltpetre in manure and the advantage of steeping seeds in specially prepared liquid manure were well known at the time.
About the researches of Ehrenberg. "I have … sent him several packets of objects from my voyage & that of Dr. Hooker".
Thanks for earth samples. Discusses Infusoria in samples from Galapagos and Cape Verde Islands. Would like samples from other sites. Will send further results of investigations.
Encloses letter from Ehrenberg [758] about Infusoria.
Intends to visit Kew.
No summary available.
If he will send him what notes he has on his father he will forward them to [Josiah?] Quincy. Can he let him have definite news as to the disposal of the History?
Has been occupied in London with Railway business and so has been unable to make a copy of his father's History. Will obtain the services of an amanuensis to speed things up.
Details regarding the Admiralty Manual of Instruction. Number of copies and compensation for JH.
When he was staying with Headlam he arranged to show him round a chemical works. Wonders if the sketch JH made at the time of a method for reducing chemical fumes is still extant. Would be glad to receive a copy of it, and the name of the works.
Extensive letter answering the many queries about nebulae raised by AH in his 1844-4-18 [letter contains notes made by AH].
Wollaston Fund should be reserved for furtherance of private individual research, not for vast public projects. Prefers to ask assistance from secretary for Colonies.
Add to [ES's] enclosed letter, which ES will explain more fully at committee meeting next week.
Colonial governor at Ceylon will grant £150 annually for operation of magnetic observatory at Colombo, directed by Royal Artillery officers already there, if [R.S.L.] will supply instruments. Proposes seeking money for instruments from Wollaston Fund.
Appropriate use of Wollaston Fund for supporting research. Possible sources of instruments for new magnetic and meteorological observatory at St. John's, Newfoundland.
Sends TT some specimens of the plant tritonia uvaria.