Found [Variation] full of interest. Has not yet made up his mind about Pangenesis; wants to hear what can be said against it.
Found [Variation] full of interest. Has not yet made up his mind about Pangenesis; wants to hear what can be said against it.
JL’s Royal Institution lectures.
Wants information on Fuegian harpoons. Must prepare second edition of Prehistoric times.
Would like to borrow CD’s carriage on polling day.
Arrangements for polling.
JL’s failure to be elected to Parliament.
Thanks for the pamphlets; JL’s paper, "Primitive condition of man" [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 6 (1868): 328].
Visiting arrangements.
Down School funds.
Down School funds.
Asks for reference to Louis Agassiz’s views on embryos indicating ancestral structures.
Has been asked by Henry Powell [new vicar of Down] for help to build a house at Down; asks for CD’s advice.
On the antennae of Labidocera.
Size of sexes in Entomostraca.
Is glad CD likes the new edition [of Prehistoric times].
Has been lecturing in Scotland.
No summary available.
Thanks for his letter. Sorry to hear that JH's name is not on the Register, but can they add his name to JL's Committee? His father is very ill.
Has seen JH's nephew and will be pleased to sign his certificate. His instinct and reason are against dating Stonehenge as post-Roman.
Thanks for his letter. Agrees that the stones of Stonehenge must have come from the neighborhood. The chips in the barrows must have come from the hewn stones of Stonehenge.
No summary available.
Further arrangements for polling. Everything looks well. [Ellen Lubbock notes, "he is too sanguine – ".]