Discusses payment of £10 owed by Italians.
"No corrections for Voyage of Beagle [Journal of researches]."
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Discusses payment of £10 owed by Italians.
"No corrections for Voyage of Beagle [Journal of researches]."
Discusses page length [of Cross and self-fertilisation]. Doubts 1500 copies will be sold until lapse of some years.
Has no idea about length of index [for Descent]. W. S. Dallas wrote it would take ten days more. Asks how many presentation copies he may have. Lists journals to receive review copies.
Suggests periodicals to receive review copies [of Descent].
Is "ashamed at my corrections".
Discusses mailing of presentation copies [of Descent]. Sends addresses of A. R. Wallace and St George Mivart.
Asks that review copy [of Descent] be sent to F. P. Cobbe.
Discusses mailing of presentation copies.
Asks that a presentation copy [of Descent?] be sent to Edward Blyth. Comments on publication.
Discusses presentation copies [of Descent]. Dallas returned proofs of index on Friday. Asks for John Stuart Mill’s address.
Suggests sending his book [Descent?] to Popular Science Review.
First six chapters [of Origin, 6th ed.] sent to printer.
Cannot understand the estimate of the Heliotype Company [for plates for Expression]. Discusses the original agreement as he understood it.
Discusses printing of Expression.
Comments on discussions with C. Reinwald concerning French edition of Expression.
Discusses presentation copies of Expression.
Discusses distribution of presentation copies of Expression. Sends instructions for mailing his copies. Discusses negotiations with C. Reinwald concerning French edition. Suggests journals to receive review copies.
Discusses production of plates [for Expression].
Comments on additional printing of Expression. Complains about poor quality of plates.
Discusses illustrations for 2d edition of Descent.
"My nephew [Henry Parker] got into the Athenaeum with splendid success."
Is glad to have Descent cheaper and sold more largely, but would be sorry to see it printed like the Origin. "The closeness of the lines is the great fault." Fears book might be very thick. "I hear scores of people complaining of the heavy and thick books which you publish."
Discusses the price to be charged to Appleton’s for the plates of Insectivorous plants.