Thanks for a quarto work on the mining industry. CD’s sons much obliged for kindness in California.
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Thanks for a quarto work on the mining industry. CD’s sons much obliged for kindness in California.
Asks for the negative and permission to publish photo of smiling girl. [Expression, p. 202, plate III, fig. 2.]
Comments on FG’s description of a séance at the house of William Crookes.
Will use FG’s words about [H. M. Butler’s] hereditary habit [in Expression, p. 33 n. 8].
Encourages FG to carry out investigation [of spiritualism]. However, his own health is too uncertain to accept Daniel Dunglas Home’s offer. Discusses possibility of reproducing Crookes’s apparatus for sale.
Orders sulphuric ether, nitric ether, chloroform, and prussic acid [for Drosera experiments? See Insectivorous plants, pp. 209, 219].
Much obliged for GHK and MHC’s General glaciation [of Iar-Connaught (1872)].
Will be in London for a week. Invites ARW to lunch.