Request for plant.
Receipt of Oliver’s letter.
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Request for plant.
Receipt of Oliver’s letter.
Emma prepares JDH for his visit to Wedgwood factory and Barlaston.
CD says Meneanthes is now in flower.
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
Sends a translation by Mr Noel [not found] of C. B. von Cotta’s views on CD’s and Lyell’s work.
Asks Emma to write to Erasmus [E. A. Darwin] in support of Miss Elizabeth Garrett as Professor of Physiology at Bedford College for girls.
Does not like the photos; thinks they should try again.
Last account of Susan Darwin reports she is having a good deal of faintness.
Mrs Hooker will not come with him to Down on Saturday.
Caroline says Jos [Wedgwood III] is "much pulled down".
Will be glad to see her on 4th.
Thinks Hensleigh is getting better, very slowly.
CD’s sudden temporary failure of memory and his eczema are not serious and would be relieved by rest and good diet.
Would like to come to Down on 20th or 21st.
Woolner is unwell.
Has been working with G. R. Crotch on stridulation. The sexual theory seems very shaky.
Is sending preparations of beetles.
Observations on the first appearance of tears in a baby.
Crying in babies.
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.
CD much obliged for specimen and drawings.
Trying to persuade CD to visit JL.
Glad to hear of the plant; CD instructs WED to make further observations. If it is a good case he will insist on WED’s sending a communication to the Linnean Society.
CD sends thanks to Mr Noel for allowing him to see article [sent by Alice Bonham-Carter, see 4722]. CD is pleased at Bernhard von Cotta’s remarks on species; very few of the older distinguished geologists have so favourable a view of his work. He was particularly pleased to read Cotta’s remarks on the azoic formations.