CD is obliged for the offer, but he is "too much occupied to contribute to any periodicals".
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CD is obliged for the offer, but he is "too much occupied to contribute to any periodicals".
Sends data on numbers of "wild" cattle in the herd on the estate of Lord Tankerville that have been killed by fighting, accidents, etc. He does not perceive that the cattle have diminished in size.
Discusses family and domestic matters.
Henslow’s long suffering.
Donald Beaton’s articles in Cottage Gardener clever but not to be trusted.
Henslow’s death.
What a contrast C. C. Babington will be as Professor of Botany at Cambridge.
Beaton not to be trusted.
CD may switch from Athenæum to London Review & Wkly J. Polit.
CD’s doubts on biography of Henslow. Writing recollections of Cambridge days at JDH’s request.
Has heard, through Lubbock, of a gentleman who is offering a partnership in a bank.
Discusses the possibility of a banking job for William [Darwin]; wishes to meet JL to discuss the prospects.
Discusses the opportunity for WED to become a partner in a bank.
Requests that exotic species of Vinca, which never set seed at Kew, be fertilised by pressing a fine bristle between anthers as a moth would its proboscis.
Asks that Primula farinosa be sent.
Thanks for railway map.
Surprised about Richard Owen: "I thought his courage was as indomitable as his malignity."
Sends extract [Sir John Herschel, "Physical geography", from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1861)].
[Queries in CD’s hand answered on same pages by WBT.] Sexual selection of fowls; role of beauty in cocks.
Sexual behaviour of fowls.
Has written recollections of Henslow [Collected papers 2: 72–4].
Describes her compassion for all his sufferings and writes of her wish that his gratitude could be offered to heaven as well as to herself. To her, the only relief is to try to believe that suffering and illness are from God’s hand "to help us to exalt our minds & to look forward with hope to a future state".
Writes about dealings through John Lubbock regarding [a banking partnership for] WED.
William Darwin can go to Southampton any time should the banking proposition come to anything. CD is sure he would work hard.
Arrangements for a meeting.
Writes regarding the possibility of banking partnership for WED; second note arranges a meeting between the involved parties in London.
Asks to meet JL for a final talk about the banking partnership for William Darwin.