Requesting two books, Lafitau 1724 and Tanner 1830.
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Requesting two books, Lafitau 1724 and Tanner 1830.
CD thanks the editor of a picture book "for … the photographs of your striking pictures, & for the honour which you have done me by the introduction of my name and likeness into one of them".
Sending the membership certificate for Francis Maitland Balfour.
Acknowledges receipt of a publication from a German author. Hopes that the German will not be too difficult to understand in an "important & abstruse" subject.
Sends autograph and wishes EE success in his scientific studies and career.
Suggests MJ does not worry about the differences in opinion between ecclesiastics and scientists.
Requesting a volume of the Philosophical Transactions said to contain two papers by Erasmus Darwin, also a third paper if it can be found.
Requesting parts or volume of the Philosophical Transactions due to him.
Requesting two books by Lionel Smith Beale.
Sending the membership certificate for Robert Swinhoe.
Is honoured by CGS’s dedication [see 10942].
His observation of the dorsal eyes of Onchidium is interesting and surprising.
CD declines to write for RLT’s new journal. He is not fitted for the work and dislikes it particularly. It costs loss of time as he "cannot change with ease from one job to another".
"I have received a very large box full of beautiful tea from Russia yesterday … my life is as regular & monotonous as a clock.
I make sure, but wofully slow progress, with my new book."