CD proposes to call for tea if he is well enough on Thursday.
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CD proposes to call for tea if he is well enough on Thursday.
Has altered and added to HES’s list [compiled for Bibliographia zoologiæ et geologiæ, edited by Louis Agassiz and enlarged by HES, (1848–54)].
On zoological nomenclature CD cites a case in which he believes more harm than good would be done by following the rule of priority. Thinks the rule of the first describer’s name being attached in perpetuity to a species has been the greatest curse to natural history. Every genus of cirripedes has a half-dozen names and not one careful description.
Sends a paper he once wrote [missing] on the subject [of zoological nomenclature].
Will return books, and asks for more.
Had hoped to sent specimens by carrier that day; intends to sent them next Thursday.
Thanks for German scientific newspaper: two articles interested him.