Requesting two books, Lafitau 1724 and Tanner 1830.
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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Requesting two books, Lafitau 1724 and Tanner 1830.
CD thanks the editor of a picture book "for … the photographs of your striking pictures, & for the honour which you have done me by the introduction of my name and likeness into one of them".
Sending the membership certificate for Francis Maitland Balfour.
Acknowledges receipt of a publication from a German author. Hopes that the German will not be too difficult to understand in an "important & abstruse" subject.
Sends autograph and wishes EE success in his scientific studies and career.
Suggests MJ does not worry about the differences in opinion between ecclesiastics and scientists.
Requesting a volume of the Philosophical Transactions said to contain two papers by Erasmus Darwin, also a third paper if it can be found.
Requesting parts or volume of the Philosophical Transactions due to him.
Requesting two books by Lionel Smith Beale.
Sending the membership certificate for Robert Swinhoe.
Is honoured by CGS’s dedication [see 10942].
His observation of the dorsal eyes of Onchidium is interesting and surprising.
CD declines to write for RLT’s new journal. He is not fitted for the work and dislikes it particularly. It costs loss of time as he "cannot change with ease from one job to another".
"I have received a very large box full of beautiful tea from Russia yesterday … my life is as regular & monotonous as a clock.
I make sure, but wofully slow progress, with my new book."