CD thanks RLT for his two notes, a newspaper article, and a copy of RLT’s address honouring him.
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CD thanks RLT for his two notes, a newspaper article, and a copy of RLT’s address honouring him.
Sends £25 for the Birmingham Philosophical Society scientific fund.
Thanks for information on the slope of ground at Worcester.
CD’s passion now is worms.
Sends Movement in plants. While correcting proof, CD remembered an old article by HHJ, which he regrets not including.
Anxious that AG should consider a memorial [for A. R. Wallace]. Makes arrangements to avoid delay.
Sends memorial [for A. R. Wallace] for AG to sign. Asks whether AG will forward it to Owen; CD cannot send it as he has not spoken to him for 20 years.
Asks how he can obtain a Museum post for his late brother’s butler, F. W. Surman.
Thanks for the birthday greetings.
"I feel a very old man and my course is nearly run."
The honour RLT proposes [Darwin Festival] is a great one, "but would it not be better to wait until I am in my grave?"