Will come to dine on Monday unless he hears to the contrary.
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Will come to dine on Monday unless he hears to the contrary.
Thanks CD for his review [of H. W. Bates’s paper on mimetic butterflies, Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Is glad Hooker approved of his [JL’s] lecture.
JL is off to visit Scotch "kjökken möddings".
Hopes Lyell is not really vexed by his article.
Has returned from trip to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
Has been made President of the Ethnological Society.
Is working on a notice for the Natural History Review [n.s. 4 (1864): 37–43] of Huxley’s lectures to working men on the origin of species.
JL’s article on Huxley’s "Lectures [to working men]".
Planning a volume of essays [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Has obtained microscopes for CD.
Wishes to borrow volumes 1 and 3 of Narrative [vol. 1 by Capt. P. P. King, vol. 3 by CD].
Congratulates CD on receiving the Copley Medal.
Vexed at the address of the President of the Royal Society [on award of Copley medal to CD].
JL’s MS at printer’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Apologises for failure to post letter.
Delighted at CD’s praise of his book [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Returns [Fritz?] Müller’s work [probably Für Darwin (1864)]. It is a remarkable memoir.
Returns Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Anxious to make acquaintance of Ernst Haeckel [who was staying with CD].
JL’s brother-in-law [Robert Birkbeck] would like a note of introduction to John Murray.
H. T. Stainton should be elected F.R.S.
Discusses the practice of exogamy; asks if any animals have an instinctive repugnance to inbreeding.
Thanks CD for information.
Returns R. G. Haliburton’s paper ["The unity of the human race proved by the universality of certain superstitions connected with sneezing", reprinted in New materials for the history of man (1863)] and sends one of his own partly in answer to it ["The early condition of man", Anthropol. Rev. 6 (1868): 1–14].
Capital BAAS meeting at Dundee.