Asks permission to bring Fanny Allen to CB’s party.
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Asks permission to bring Fanny Allen to CB’s party.
Discusses CD’s religious doubts. Fears his work may lead him to discount what cannot be proved, and advises that there are some things which, "if true are likely to be above our comprehension" and "that there is a danger in giving up revelation".
Asks to be allowed to bring his sister to CB’s party "that she may see the World".
Submits the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the third number of part two and second number of part three of the Zoology.
Writes to CD as "Brother Benedick" and sends hearty good wishes for health and happiness in marriage. They are sending a little silver candlestick for a wax taper.
Asks WW to alter, before printing, the passages in WW’s Presidential Address to the Geological Society [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1839): 93] which pointedly allude to the delay in publication of CD’s Beagle journal; they might annoy FitzRoy, who, as Captain, has a right to first use of the papers of all officers on board.
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Will be pleased to examine the dried plants. Send them to the Horticultural Society's Garden, Turnham Green.
Has a few pounds surplus from the subscription for JH's vase and wonders if it could be used to supply a plinth for the pedestal. Does JH agree? Perhaps Lady Herschel can supply the wording.
Along with the Lord Advocate and other Scotch members of the House of Commons had an interview with [Thomas Spring-?] Rice concerning the enclosed memorial (Observatory of the University). Comments on their proposed plan for the work of the university.
Wants to withhold description of 'developing' process until it is perfected to obviate others using it. Also refers to second process to make 'positive' and 'negative.'
Some comments on JH's light and photography experiments, especially effects of different kinds of glass and fixing with ferrocyanate.
Describes mediocre results obtained using ferrocyanate of potash for fixing image. Mentions some other methods, including his favorite, common salt. Asks JH to keep these secret.
More about paper being published in both the R.S.P.T. and Athenaeum.
Finally had success washing with ferrocyanate. Wants to present note of 'his' processes to R.S.L. and so to the world.
Wishes to communicate to J. B. Biot, and so to Academie des sciences, JH's two 'beautiful' fixing methods, by hyposulfite and ferrocyanate.
Questions JH's intent to display 'photogenic drawings' to R.S.L.