Has been looking at the school accounts. Has any interest been paid to S. J. O’H. Horsman this year? CD will keep accounts temporarily; he has not yet received from Horsman the balance in hand from last year.
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Has been looking at the school accounts. Has any interest been paid to S. J. O’H. Horsman this year? CD will keep accounts temporarily; he has not yet received from Horsman the balance in hand from last year.
Asks whether JL would be prepared to sign a petition on behalf of Miss Eliza Meteyard who is seeking a civil list pension.
Sexual differences in Labidocera darwinii, in Entomostraca, and Myriapoda.
Gives CD references to papers on eyes of lower animals.
Sends paper [on ancient Swiss lake-habitations, Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51] for CD’s opinion.
Sir George Clerk to be new President of the Zoological Society.
Grateful for CD’s approval of "Lake-habitations".
Will visit CD on Saturday.
Hopes CD will come to lunch on Saturday. The Busks and J. D. Hooker are with JL.
JL is going on a geological excursion with Joseph Prestwich and John Evans.
Thanks for Orchids.
"The big book [Variation] will no doubt go on again now."
JL is writing on Somme implements ["Evidence of antiquity of man", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 244–69].
JL’s Swiss tour with Tyndall and Huxley.
Lake-habitations.
CD’s health is bad.
Would like to visit CD on Friday.
Hopes to visit tomorrow if CD is up to it.
Thinks Bates’s paper on mimetic butterflies ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566], is very good; would appreciate an article on it from CD ["On mimetic butterflies", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 219–24; Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Thanks CD for agreeing to review Bates’s paper for Natural History Review.
Is pleased by CD’s praise of his article.
Hugh Falconer’s is certainly interesting.
Dining arrangements.
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.