Invitation to Down for the 18th. W. B. Richmond, who is painting CD’s portrait, will also be there.
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Invitation to Down for the 18th. W. B. Richmond, who is painting CD’s portrait, will also be there.
Sleep in Crotalaria.
Report of John Ball’s lecture to Geographical Society: Alpine flora is direct descendant of Palaeozoic flora ["On the origin of the flora of the European Alps", Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography 1: 564–88].
CD’s father thought he had not been treated fairly about his share of his mother’s [Mary Howard Darwin’s] fortune. Will not allude to this [in Erasmus Darwin]. Surprising that grandfather did not make more money. Has found memorandum of his having lost £1500 in ironworks.
The progress of the Fuegians is wonderful.
Sympathises with the "lamentable state" BJS and his family have been in.