Is obliged to GHD for arranging everything.
Sorry about the proof-sheets.
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Is obliged to GHD for arranging everything.
Sorry about the proof-sheets.
Has been visiting Anthony Rich, who persists in his intention to leave his property to CD despite the large fortune left by Erasmus. It is now all the more necessary for CD to arrange his own will.
Tremendously interested by GHD’s news [about the Plumian Professorship at Cambridge]. Suggests he get William Thomson to write to the electors.
Last issue of Nature has made him "awfully proud". [See R. S. Ball, "A glimpse through the corridors of time", Nature 25 (1881): 79–82.]
Encloses a letter from a Mr Hill on some [unspecified] legal matter.
Asks GHD to send a copy of his "paper on the moon" [probably Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 171 (1880): 713–891] to V. O. Kovalevsky.
Has sent last week’s Nature wth J. S. Newberry’s paper ["Hypothetical high tides", Nature 25 (1882): 357–8]. CD thinks Newberry is right. This week’s issue has a letter against Newberry by Charles Callaway ["Letters to the editor: hypothetical high tides", Nature 25 (1882): 385].
The Archbishop of Canterbury has launched a series by scientists in the Contemporary Review on what is known and what is theoretical in science. [The series appears to have begun with an article by Robert S. Ball, "The boundaries of astronomy", 41 (1882): 923–41]. CD was asked to participate, but refused.
Writes on family matters and researches.
Mentions construction of a pendulum
and completion of a paper he will send to the Royal Society.
Has sent off paper to the Royal Society
and begun work on a new problem which he feels contains the meaning of Bode’s Law, concerning the mean distances of the planets from the sun. There are mathematical difficulties, however, which he may be unable to surmount.
Will get to work on the pendulum next week.
Writes of a Mrs Noel, who is annoyed with CD’s neglect of Erasmus Darwin’s brother, W[illiam] A[lvey] D[arwin I], [in Erasmus Darwin].
Asks CD’s advice on how to answer a letter requesting his endorsement of Wrigley, his former teacher at Clapham School.
Is having a trough made to try experiments [on ripple-marks].
Comments on CD’s book [Movement in plants].
Continues with his experiments with ripple-marks.
Is in despair about his astronomy.
Has nearly finished his mathematical paper.
Is not sure when he will go to Patterdale.
Sends CD information he had requested on W. Graham.
Discusses funeral arrangements for E. A. Darwin, and his will.
E. A. Darwin’s funeral arrangements.
The merchants suggest that CD keep the wine and return it if more is corked.
Gives an account of the reception of his paper at York [BAAS meeting].
Has found the missing packet of forks, which he will send or take to Down.