Sets out estimate for cutting blocks for illustrations of a trap.
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Sets out estimate for cutting blocks for illustrations of a trap.
Regrets CD’s poor health.
"Do not return Primula MS."
Sorry to hear of CD’s poor health.
Returns a borrowed extract from the [Zoological?] Record.
Asks whether he ought to write to CD while he is ill.
Wonders if he might use Haast’s notes on introduced animals for a notice he is preparing ["Note on the replacement of species in the colonies and elsewhere", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864): 123–7].
Proposes to examine CD at Down.
Sends Effie’s [K. E. Wedgwood] letter;
recounts other family news.
Is interested in CD’s thoughts on podophyllin.
Urges Emma to bring CD to hydropathic establishment at Forres.
Family affairs.
Mrs Innes’ brother-in-law has died.
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
Sends a translation by Mr Noel [not found] of C. B. von Cotta’s views on CD’s and Lyell’s work.
Asks Emma to write to Erasmus [E. A. Darwin] in support of Miss Elizabeth Garrett as Professor of Physiology at Bedford College for girls.
Does not like the photos; thinks they should try again.
Last account of Susan Darwin reports she is having a good deal of faintness.
Mrs Hooker will not come with him to Down on Saturday.
Caroline says Jos [Wedgwood III] is "much pulled down".
Will be glad to see her on 4th.
Thinks Hensleigh is getting better, very slowly.
CD’s sudden temporary failure of memory and his eczema are not serious and would be relieved by rest and good diet.
Would like to come to Down on 20th or 21st.
Woolner is unwell.
Has been working with G. R. Crotch on stridulation. The sexual theory seems very shaky.
Is sending preparations of beetles.
Observations on the first appearance of tears in a baby.