Asks CD to send him some books on physiology and natural history from the family library.
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Asks CD to send him some books on physiology and natural history from the family library.
Feels deeply for them at their "impossible loss" [of Anne].
Asks CD whether he is making any plans for Edinburgh.
Will be home in three weeks.
Acknowledges the receipt of some securities.
Reports on the commissions CD requested of him [in a missing letter]; comments on English political issues.
Has found a shop with supplies of chemical equipment, and a mineral collector.
Calculations relating to bees’ cells.
Gives calculations on the structure of bees’ cells.
Encloses projections and models relating to geometry of bees’ cells.
Sends a model of bee cells "as bad as a Chinese puzzle". [A series of paper cut-out figures.]
Discusses geometry related to the structure of bees’ cells. Encloses notes and diagrams dealing with intersections of spheres.
Describes his trip by canal to Glasgow, and sightseeing there.
Writes of "the Dr’s" [Henry Holland’s] mixed reactions to the book.
Adds a personal opinion, "it is the most interesting book I ever read".
Found his vessel delayed. Spent an hour or so at the Hunterian Museum, "well worth going to".
EAD wants changes made and shelves built to improve the laboratory at the Mount [Darwin residence]; sends drawings and will bring chemical instruments, a book, and his record of experiments done in his chemistry course.
He has now been matriculated.
Will be glad to have CD.
Describes the lectures at medical school in London.
Medical studies in London. Compares lectures and students at London and Edinburgh. Comments on the cost of dissection.
Asks CD to help Thomas Carlyle find and borrow a book.
Asks for a note to the Geological Society, since the museum did not have the book Carlyle wanted.