Thanks for the photographs.
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Thanks for the photographs.
Agrees to contribute £10 towards a new road in the area of Beckenham, although he doubts whether the road will be of much use to him.
On cats’ habit of leaving the room or house in which a corpse is lying.
Notes on CD’s Expression.
Reports the case of an idiot in his care who apparently chews his cud.
Extract from the Honolulu Gazette on the decreasing population of the Sandwich Islands.
Contradicts passages in Descent and Variation.
Asks that recipient forward the enclosed message from Dr Hoffmann [August Wilhelm von Hofmann?] which involves an invitation from Berlin Chemical Society to join a committee for a statue in memory of Justus Liebig.
Writes as Treasurer of the Down Friendly Society; discusses financial matters related to the Society.
Has heard that Mr Allen wishes to let his house and thinks it probable that it would suit his son [Francis]. Asks whether he may have refusal of it.
Although he formed a high opinion of one of the correspondent’s papers, regrets that he could not presume to give an opinion of the merits of a candidate in chemistry.
An anonymous letter praising the Origin.
"The learned Darwin states that Moses taught confusion. | For Man, he boldly says, descends from Ape or Monkey – | I, having read his book, am come to this conclusion | Darwin (at least himself) descends from Ass or Donkey."
Mr Matheson will set out for London on 8 July [presumably 1844]. It would give the writer much pleasure to see Mr M and the addressee [presumably William Kemp].
Gives permission to insert in his magazine anything from CD’s works.
Asks that enclosed letter be posted for him.
Asks about insects and seeds on leaves of Pinguicula.