JL is thinking of moving to Brighton.
JL is thinking of moving to Brighton.
Sends paper [on ancient Swiss lake-habitations, Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51] for CD’s opinion.
Sir George Clerk to be new President of the Zoological Society.
Has had 16 in the household ill.
Wants to meet JL.
Praises JL’s paper ["Ancient lake-habitations of Switzerland", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51].
Grateful for CD’s approval of "Lake-habitations".
Will visit CD on Saturday.
Hopes CD will come to lunch on Saturday. The Busks and J. D. Hooker are with JL.
JL is going on a geological excursion with Joseph Prestwich and John Evans.
Thanks for Orchids.
"The big book [Variation] will no doubt go on again now."
JL is writing on Somme implements ["Evidence of antiquity of man", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 244–69].
Leonard Darwin’s illness.
William Darwin and the bank.
Beginning to make out a marvellous case of trimorphism.
JL’s Swiss tour with Tyndall and Huxley.
Lake-habitations.
CD was in error about bees’ behaviour at clover.
Hive-bees and clover.
Finds JL’s facts on the diving insect that remains four hours under water new and interesting [see "On two aquatic Hymenoptera", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1864): 135–42].
Would like JL to call.
CD’s health is bad.
Would like to visit CD on Friday.
Hopes to be well enough on Friday to see JL.
Several of the family have had influenza.
Hopes to visit tomorrow if CD is up to it.
Thinks Bates’s paper on mimetic butterflies ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566], is very good; would appreciate an article on it from CD ["On mimetic butterflies", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 219–24; Collected papers 2: 87–92].
H. W. Bates’s paper; CD will review it. ["Mimetic butterflies" (1863), Collected papers 2: 87–92.]