Invites JH to dinner if possible, or later if not at present possible.
Invites JH to dinner if possible, or later if not at present possible.
Thanks for mentioning HH's book [Medical Notes and Reflections (1839)] in JH's review of William Whewell in latest issue of Quarterly Review. Sends copy of its second edition.
Compliments JH's translation (1842) of J. C. F. Schiller's 'The Walk.' Is going to Scotland, then Switzerland. Has seen enough of America.
Grateful for JH's translation of J. C. F. Schiller's 'The Walk.' Comments on several points in the translation.
Delayed answering JH's letter until HH could find details of works by 'Göttingen Professor,' but has had difficulty in locating them. Any treatise connecting epidemics with fungous origins would be of interest. Will bring distressing medical case to attention of one of HH's committees. HH's Medical Notes and Reflections, 3rd edition (1855).
Marriage of HH's eldest daughter. Thanks for JH's letter of introduction to George Bishop and J. R. Hind.
Thanks for congratulations on marriage of HH's daughter. Notes HH's review of J. C. Prichard's Natural History of Man in December issue of Quarterly Review, written while on holiday in Armenia.
No summary available.
Comments on JH's paper on Sensorial Vision (1858). Covered some of this ground in HH's own book, Mental Physiology (1852).
Comments on the Origin. Outlines difficulties he finds in CD’s theory. Believes CD must define natural selection more accurately and mentions instances in which that principle is an insufficient cause to account for the form of certain structures.
Condolences on death of Charlotte Langton [née Wedgwood].
Is waiting to hear from Lord Tankerville [see 3339].
Has read CD’s Primula paper.
Regrets to hear that CD and family are victims to the influenza epidemic.
Has received a satisfactory answer from Lord Tankerville.
Is preparing a volume of his articles [Essays on scientific and other subjects (1862)], to one of which he would like to add a postscript referring to CD’s Origin [pp. 100–1]. Sends proposed postscript for CD’s approval.
Suggests a change in the postscript [referred to in 3423].
Gives CD advice on the illness of one of his sons [presumably Horace].
Hopes JH will accept enclosed little volume.
Louis Pasteur’s memoir "is a very able and convincing one" ["Mémoire sur les corpuscles organisés qui existent dans l’atmosphère", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 3d ser. 16 (1861): 5–98].
Thanks for Orchids.
Thanks JH for mentioning HH's paper. Attributes electrical phenomena to 'a material element,' perhaps a modified form of ether, distinct from other matter.