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Progress of house building; 3 chimneys up, Percy (Curtis) proud of appearance of roof's gables, hips and dormers, felting and tiling to be done; annoying delays in fitting window frames; rough calculation of 400 feet of water piping, good book on hot water supply by Mr Dye; choosing fixtures and fittings for kitchen and bathroom from Spring? and Marten of Stratford catalogue; electric bells to be fitted; suggests William might find books on surveying in old Newcastle bookshops.
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Progress of house building; extra expense and days lost through replacement of faulty windows, re-hanging a door, missing door locks and window glass of wrong thickness (ink sketches of windows and door latches on two pages); bills of £120 this month, economy needed; bookshelves fitted in study but no shelves elsewhere, house full of unpacked crates; work on garden and greenhouse; sheep, cattle and horses nibbling plants; "Manx Codlen" and "Northern Greening" apples in orchard; teak front door begun; parrot now well and beginning to talk.
The 1902 Rede Lecture by Osborne Reynolds "On an inversion of ideas as to the structure of the Universe" - his explanation of gravity similar to Allen's; work on house and garden; reading books for material for his own book, [Man's place in the Universe] hopes to get it out by summer; William Greenell Wallace's business in Ipswich and London.
Approval of William's notes [on proofs of Man's place in the Universe], sending four more chapters, relieved to be finished, thinks the book will sell well; enclosing a letter (not present) from Hicks; going to meet Mrs Fisher.
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Requests botanical data relating to Italy and New Guinea.
The information Beccari sent re. the flora of NW New Guinea is similar to what H. O. Forbes reports about SE New Guinea. ARW adds his own observations on NW New Guinea.
ARW is grateful for the information about the flora of Italy and the enclosed letter from Dr Lauterbach (see WCP6813).
Proof reading of his book, [Man's place in the Universe] sending the last four chapters; agrees section on the sun vague, argument on light of stars cut out; gravitation and angular velocity of forces at earth's centre; Mr Marshall to read proofs also, asks William Greenell Wallace to compare readings with him; writing rushed but can be improved in a new edition. The last page is annotated in pencil [in William Greenell Wallace's hand] with mathematical calculations.
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William Greenell Wallace's proof corrections [to Man's Place in the Universe], stars, Milky Way, Solar Cluster, Jupiter; speculation in accordance with known facts; difference of opinion over spiritualism; writing an article for the Fortnightly; purchase of a telescope from Cooke of York, better than the last, making a stand for it; trying to help Fred Birch to get a post as Museum curator in the Federated Malay States.