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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
29 March 1865
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 26
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
No summary available.
He encloses a portrait and asks for one of CD.
He has sent mimetic paper to B. D. Walsh.
Mentions work at Royal Geographical Society on N. Pole business [plans for an Arctic expedition, eventually postponed until 1875–6].
WBT’s eye is getting on very well.
Enclosure comments on a note to folio 1 [of CD’s MS on variation], WBT thinks his works not worth citing: his edition of the Poultry book was never completed and Profitable poultry is out of print.
Objects to plan to move Royal Observatory to site other than Greenwich, but will defer to G. B. Airy's opinion. JH's deteriorating health.
Announces a National School quarterly meeting.