Sending Meldola a copy of Is Mars Habitable?.
Sending Meldola a copy of Is Mars Habitable?.
Will go to Buckhurst Hill with Meldola to meet the Rector. Discusses travel arrangements.
Thanking Meldola for information regarding Epping Forest post. Asks Meldola to keep him posted (via Mr Bames) about the quality of the other candidates and the names of those on the sub-committee.
Has been invited to attend the Epping Forest sub-committee with another 11 candidates. Wishes to know their names.
Wishes to thank his unknown friend, who has made him a life member of the Entomological Society. More about Epping Forest -changes he would make. Mr. Bedford (chairman of committee) favours Mr. MacKenzie for the post of ranger. Butler would have been next.
Thanks for the invitation -will arrive at six. More about meeting with Epping Forest Committee.
Thanks for invitation, but is confined to the house with an attack of bronchitis. Has been unable to go to Bournemouth with the Geologists Association. Comments about the proposal to put Temple Bar in Epping Forest -"barbarism".
Has received cheque for five guineas from Epping Forest & County of Essex Naturalists Field Club. About his letter on "Nationalisation of the Land" in the Daily News. Criticism of Nelson, who received £500 p.a. on top of his salary, plus £2000-£3000 expressly for his services re. Epping Forest. Views on Transvaal. "It is simply abominable that we should at the present day actually take away freedom from a people of European race who claim and defend it and have always done so!"
Accepting invitation. Will meet at Theydon Bois station.
Sorry that he missed Meldola -missed train to Theydon Bois, so returned home.
Will meet Meldola at Ilford on Saturday.
Dates carvings to between Palaeolithic and Neolithic eras. Mentions Sir Antonius and Mr. Cole. Will meet Meldola at six on Tuesday.
Travel arrangements to Buckhurst Hill. Tell Mr. Cole that he has a large map to hang up, and will also require a lamp. Glad Meldola likes his "climate" theory. "If I have really hit upon the true solution of this great puzzle it will I think be the best thing I have done yet. Like most of my theories it came to me while writing, for when I began my book I had no notion of how to treat it; I only felt then that there was a great hitch in Croll's theory." Croll has been unwell.
Sending paper on "species and Genera" from Nineteenth Century. Will stay at Meldola's before travelling to B. Ass. meeting at York.
Will not stay with Meldola, but invites him to Godalming for the weekend instead. Wants his advice about gas stoves.
Is coming to town for a meeting of the Land Nationalisation Society. Could he have a bed on Tuesday night?.
Have let their house for a month from 8th August. Will go to the New Forest for a week or two weeks, and then to Swanage, Dorset. "I want to give Willie a treat in fossils." Has received an invitation from Lord Mount Temple, of Broadlands. "I much prefer the quiet of Swanage and shall decline of course." Does Meldola know of anyone the ARW's could lodge with in the New Forest? Invites him to stay.
Comments on Meldola's article in the Annals. It has disposed of Mr. Distant's hazy objections. Can he stay on Friday night, when he comes up for a meeting of the L and Nationalisation Society?.
Invites Meldola over.
Enclosing tickets for the 4th and 11th March. Meldola's deputation was wasted on Sir John Lubbock -why not go direct to the Home Secretary? Should appeal to government to veto Epping Forest Bill -and more on this.