On the proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
On the proprieties of thanking Gladstone and the signers of the memorial.
All his advisers agree that CD ought not to take notice of Butler’s attack.
F. M. Balfour has offered to translate EK’s reply to Butler and to send it to Nature. [The letter was published in Nature 23 (1881): 288.]
Sends proofs of lectures he intends to reprint as a book [The Bible and science (1881)]; asks CD if he would check one for errors.
Wants a letter of introduction to Joseph Fayrer.
Letter of introduction for Montagu Lubbock.
Asks whether sheep and cattle grazing on a steep slope move across the slope horizontally or ascend it.
The Darwin family cannot agree on what CD should do about Butler’s charges [in Unconscious memory]. CD has commissioned HEL to ask LS’s advice. She sends an account of the affair with background materials.
Suggests an errata slip for preface to Erasmus Darwin would correct the inaccurate statement regarding publication of Butler’s Evolution old and new.
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