Will start translating Für Darwin. Suggests it be called "A Lift for Darwin".
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Will start translating Für Darwin. Suggests it be called "A Lift for Darwin".
He never intended "A Lift for Darwin" as a serious title but as a way of arranging it. Lyell’s suggestion seems best to him: "Facts and Arguments For Darwin".
F. Müller’s corrections warrant stating that the English translation has "additions and corrections by the author".
Is gratified to hear his index [to Variation] is considered a good one.
Ernst Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1868)], though speculative, strikes him as "one of the most remarkable books of our time".
The material [from F. Müller] makes the translation more like a new edition.
German entomologists are becoming Darwinists.
Will finish translation of Für Darwin in a week.
Asks CD to use his influence to get him appointed Assistant Secretary of the Geological Society [London].
Thanks CD for his promise of support and his flattering opinion of his qualifications for the position of Assistant Secretary of the Geological Society.
The position at Geological Society is now vacant, and he is working for it in earnest. Asks CD for a testimonial.
Continues his work on Für Darwin.
Thanks CD for kind and flattering testimonial.
WSD has been elected Assistant Secretary of the Geological Society after a sharp struggle. CD’s support was greatly in his favour.
Has finished Für Darwin. It has been a difficult job.
Asks CD to allow his name to be put on a committee to establish a Scientific Societies Club for the fellows of the six societies that will have rooms in Burlington House.
Asks whether WSD would be interested in translating Ernst Krause’s article on Erasmus Darwin [Kosmos 4 (1879): 397–424] into English.
Asks WSD to suspend the enclosed certificate.
Suggestions on listing authors in the index [for Variation].
CD was frustrated by the delay [in producing index for Variation], but was quite mollified by WSD’s note; is sorry the work turned out so badly for him.
A letter strongly recommending him for the post of Assistant Secretary of the Geological Society.
Accepts the proposed corrections of his spelling except for "chloèn". [WSD was preparing the index for Descent, vol. 2.]