CD is correct; his notes are on the Jollof, not the Tollof, tribe.
CD is correct; his notes are on the Jollof, not the Tollof, tribe.
Thanks BJS for his congratulations [on Leonard Darwin’s success].
CD is "as usual, always ailing and grumbling".
Expects his new book [Descent] to "disgust you & many others".
Thanks CL for his book [The student’s elements of geology (1871)].
Is correcting proofs [of Descent].
Sending two sheets [of Descent]. About one-and-a-half more will complete PLS’s task.
Regrets that Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen has already translated his new book into Dutch.
CD is obliged for PLS’s correction [of Descent proofs]. Will add a caption to the woodcut [of the wart-hog] since it is too late to make a new one.
Hopes he will accept a Christmas box, viz, a portrait of Sir William Herschel by Thomas Lawrence. It was given him by his friend Sir John Kirkland, who is sure of its authenticity.
His eldest son, Henry Seymour King, will deliver the annual oration at Charterhouse on 12 Dec. Would give him great pleasure if JH could be present.
Obliged for JH's kind and complete reply to his query on zodiacal light. Hopes the diagram will be included in the next edition of JH's book. Would like to include JH's visiting card in his album.
About the health of Richarda Airy and that of JH.
Is sending on G. G. Stokes instructions about polarization; several expeditions have left for more southerly locations to observe the upcoming solar eclipse.
Thanks CB for receipt of a meteorological work by CB's son [B. H. Babbage], now in Australia. JH says he grows stupider every day and is a 'prisoner in the bonds of bronchitic tyranny.'
Is pleased to hear of signs of recovery for RM from his ill health, and all wish him a complete recovery.
Discusses his thoughts on high powered definition and residual aberration in microscopes. Thinks they may be applicable to telescopes.
Inconceivable that JH merely writes 'J'accepte' (I accept) in response to the great honor AQ bestows upon him by dedicating his book to JH. Congratulates AQ on his 'fresh contribution to statistical knowledge.' Has just completed his catalogue of approximately 10,000 double and multiple stars.
Thanks JH for writing. Complains of obstacles to his work. Happy to see JH recognizes work begun by Blaise Pascal and continued by famed mathematicians. Asks JH to respond to AQ's wish to dedicate his book [L'Anthropométric] to JH with only one word: 'J'accepte.'
Is working on humans and their proportions. Encloses brochures. Wishes to dedicate L'Anthropométric to JH.
Thanks for suggestion-filled letter. Remarks on blue color of water.
Is sending G. G. Stokes's instructions about polarization. Observation parties are off to Oran, Gibraltar and Cadiz.
Is sending two copies of his book on magnetism [Treatise on Magnetism (London, 1870)].