Very glad to hear Anthony Rich is leaving CD money "encouraging science in such a very practical manner".
Very glad to hear Anthony Rich is leaving CD money "encouraging science in such a very practical manner".
Has read Krause’s "Life of Erasmus Darwin" [Kosmos 4 (1879): 397–424]; thinks it very interesting to anyone interested in "Darwinismus" – everybody.
Suggests CD send Kosmos to W. S. Dallas as Krause will surely give his permission for translation.
Sends suggestions for CD’s preface to Erasmus Darwin.
Tells CD a bill is all right. Hopes his father will pay it and a wine merchant’s bill as well.
F. P. Cobbe called on EAD to present a letter from the Secretary of the Anti-Vivisection Society; she hoped CD might support limiting repetitions of experiments.
Share dealings.
Thanks for two pamphlets;
Otto Zöckler’s [Darwin’s Grossvater (1880)] he thinks worthless.
Details about tithes.
Asks CD to sign his guarantee.
Reports events at Cambridge involving Horace.
EAD thinks it a pity if CD does not go to Cambridge, but it will be very pleasant for them to be together at Edinburgh, where they should go as soon as possible and read. EAD is getting "case-hardened" in anatomy.
Asks CD to send him some books on physiology and natural history from the family library.
Feels deeply for them at their "impossible loss" [of Anne].
Asks CD whether he is making any plans for Edinburgh.
Will be home in three weeks.
Acknowledges the receipt of some securities.
Reports on the commissions CD requested of him [in a missing letter]; comments on English political issues.
Has found a shop with supplies of chemical equipment, and a mineral collector.
Calculations relating to bees’ cells.
Gives calculations on the structure of bees’ cells.
Encloses projections and models relating to geometry of bees’ cells.