If Hooker [presumably Joseph Dalton Hooker] knows he is proposed [for something at the Royal Society?] he will enquire if he can attend.
If Hooker [presumably Joseph Dalton Hooker] knows he is proposed [for something at the Royal Society?] he will enquire if he can attend.
Asks if CSB can help him obtain specimen of Verruca.
Grateful for AH’s long letter and suggestions. Delighted at what he says about "complemental males". CD feared no one would believe in them but now that Owen, Dana, and AH accept them, he is content.
Agrees with AH on cross-impregnation; has collected facts on this head but has done nothing with them.
AH’s paper on Alcippe [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14] caused him to lose sleep over its anomalous structure.
Discusses Alcippe. Asks to borrow specimens. Would like to hire fishermen to collect specimens.
Discusses education of his sons. Would like to see more diversity.
He is pleased that Richard Owen and others had a good opinion of his first volume [on Living Cirripedia].
Asks if Thomas Salt can dispose of the £600 Shrewsbury Street mortgage.
Thanks GRW for his sympathy on his ill health. Feels better lately.
Sends thanks to G. P. Deshayes for his advice.
Asks what "original work" GRW has begun so his name will become better known.
No summary available.
No summary available.
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Asks for William Lassell's address in Malta, as JH's son, William, may be able to stop in to visit Lassell.
Thanks GS for his paper on fluorescent spectra; JH is interested in having these rays used on quartz, hoping to find his 'thermic' rays acting.
Hardly likes to trouble him to read the enclosed. Gives his views on the gold question.
Has just heard that Caroline Herschel is to marry the Hon. Mr. Gordon. Sends her his best wishes. This week TM hopes to commence the alteration to the circle room.
Gratitude for nursing JH's daughter Amelia after severe burns. Taking JH's son William to Folkstone. Regards to Miss Lipscombe.
AH's father, Lord Aberdeen [G. Hamilton-Gordon] misunderstood JH, who never meant to suggest that office of deputy master of Mint was unnecessary. JH intended to stress that some responsibilities could be borne by only the Master.
Asks for advice on JH's investments.
Explains JH's recent absence. In Collingwood to visit seriously burned daughter [Amelia] and to send son [William] off to India.
Reports gold coin production.
Family finances. Plans to let Charlotte go on Friday, to keep peace with regular cook. Will go to Naish on Saturday and bring daughters back on Monday. Will dine on Tuesday with new Chancellor of Exchequer [W. E. Gladstone]. Concern for daughter Amelia; with good nursing, she will grow new skin. Leonhard Schmitz's new Roman History is probably reproduction of B. G. Niebuhr's lectures.