Asks Newton if he knows any of the trustees of the Josiah Mason College of Science in Birmingham which is due to be opened October 1880; ARW would like to apply for a position there.
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Asks Newton if he knows any of the trustees of the Josiah Mason College of Science in Birmingham which is due to be opened October 1880; ARW would like to apply for a position there.
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Thanks for the invitation -will arrive at six. More about meeting with Epping Forest Committee.
Thanks for invitation, but is confined to the house with an attack of bronchitis. Has been unable to go to Bournemouth with the Geologists Association. Comments about the proposal to put Temple Bar in Epping Forest -"barbarism".
Accepting invitation. Will meet at Theydon Bois station.
Sorry that he missed Meldola -missed train to Theydon Bois, so returned home.
Will meet Meldola at Ilford on Saturday.
Dates carvings to between Palaeolithic and Neolithic eras. Mentions Sir Antonius and Mr. Cole. Will meet Meldola at six on Tuesday.
Travel arrangements to Buckhurst Hill. Tell Mr. Cole that he has a large map to hang up, and will also require a lamp. Glad Meldola likes his "climate" theory. "If I have really hit upon the true solution of this great puzzle it will I think be the best thing I have done yet. Like most of my theories it came to me while writing, for when I began my book I had no notion of how to treat it; I only felt then that there was a great hitch in Croll's theory." Croll has been unwell.
About specimens for his cousin Charles Wilson, in south Australia.
Thanks for kindness in writing to Mr Lichtenstein. ARW has written to the Agent General for S Australia who has promised to send the French Report(s).
Asks McLachlan to look over the enclosed proof on British Insects - Lepidoptera.
Thanks McLachlan for his suggestions.
ARW is willing to give a lecture on "The Biological Relations of New Zealand and Australia".
Informs Meldola that another man has been appointed to a position and asks for thanks to be passed on to those who supported ARW.
Unable to visit Meldola due to illness.
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