Wants information on Fuegian harpoons. Must prepare second edition of Prehistoric times.
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Wants information on Fuegian harpoons. Must prepare second edition of Prehistoric times.
Would like to borrow CD’s carriage on polling day.
Arrangements for polling.
JL’s failure to be elected to Parliament.
Thanks for the pamphlets; JL’s paper, "Primitive condition of man" [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 6 (1868): 328].
Visiting arrangements.
Down School funds.
Down School funds.
Asks for reference to Louis Agassiz’s views on embryos indicating ancestral structures.
Has been asked by Henry Powell [new vicar of Down] for help to build a house at Down; asks for CD’s advice.
On the antennae of Labidocera.
Size of sexes in Entomostraca.
Is glad CD likes the new edition [of Prehistoric times].
Has been lecturing in Scotland.
Local affairs.
Local affairs.
Birth of JL’s child.
Is puzzled what to think about the [Natural History] Review. Doubts that it is wise that JL and Huxley should give up time to it: "if it would stop your doing original work you ought not, even pro bono publico, undertake the new work".
Reports on Henrietta’s health.
The Quarterly Review [108 (1860): 255–64] quizzes CD "capitally" and he read it with thorough enjoyment.
Drawing up paper on Drosera but will not publish till results are tested.
Praise for a paper on the Entomostraca by Lubbock (Lubbock 1862). Thanks for the compliment paid to the Origin and for his general comments.
Comments on JL’s paper ["Notes on the generative organs, and on the formation of the egg in the Annulosa", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 11 (1860–2): 117–24].
Discusses the possibility of a banking job for William [Darwin]; wishes to meet JL to discuss the prospects.