Condolences on death of Charlotte Langton [née Wedgwood].
Is waiting to hear from Lord Tankerville [see 3339].
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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.
Returns HH’s essay.
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.
Will send copy of second edition of HH's Essays on Scientific...Subjects (1862). Received letter from HH's friend and former patient Louis Napoleon, who will send copy of Napoleon's book on Gallic campaigns of Caesar.
Received JH's translation of fourth book of Iliad. Will return it with comments in a few days. Attended two or three excellent lectures by JH's son. HH needs to balance mental efforts with more physical activity.
Received manuscript of JH's translation of third book of Iliad.
Cites [C. F.?] Burdach as the source of a note on atavism in alternate generations.
Wants to talk to CD about inheritance.
Congratulations on the Copley Medal.
Thanks for congratulations on award of Copley Medal by the Royal Society.
Discusses his long period of ill health.
Thanks for Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
T. S. Cobbold’s book on the Entozoa [1864].
Remarks on development of the tapeworm.
HH has nominated JH's son Alexander to fill a post become vacant by the death of Robert FitzRoy.
Writes to thank HH for his kindness in nominating son Alexander for the meteorological post [see HH's 1865-5-1].