On cost of the portrait of Dr Darwin, for Erasmus Darwin.
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On cost of the portrait of Dr Darwin, for Erasmus Darwin.
Has sent remaining sheets for proposed French translation of Erasmus Darwin. Edmond Barbier should consider the pages from Seward’s Life that have been cut from the English edition.
Thanks for printed sheets and MS. Intends that German version should follow the English, but will add notes to clarify unfamiliar material for German readers.
Thanks for list of plant names.
Acknowledges proofs of Erasmus Darwin.
CD responds to VM’s desire to plant a tree in his honour by offering three choices.
Again expresses his pleasure in Coniston.
Acknowledges that Ruskin was right about his feeling "a deep and tender interest about the brightly coloured hinder half of certain monkeys".
Thanks GJR for gift of game.
Contributes to [Naples] Zoological Station.
Sends his corrected proofs [of Erasmus Darwin] for CD’s approval, with questions and final arrangements.
Agrees to EK’s proposals [for publishing Erasmus Darwin]. Will send sheets to Paris, but is not sure there will be a French translation.
Explains his arrangements with Messrs Reinwald in France and Appleton in America, if they were to publish his work on Erasmus Darwin.
Illness of his wife.
Potato crossing experiments; believes he has increased yield considerably.
Final decisions about the printing of Erasmus Darwin.
Sends new publication [see 11838].
Plans major study of evolutionary palaeontology.
Comments on form series discovered by Joachim Barrande.
Has not heard from Leopold Würtenberger.
Requests autograph for a friend.
Has retired to Ludlow because of angina pectoris.
He and his daughter, Mary, were present in the cave near Tenby when George Rolleston found so many antediluvial bones.
Sends the requested signature,
with sympathy for HHJ’s state of health [see 12236].
Reports that HJ’s experiments on tension of parts are often quoted in German works and periodicals.
Asks correspondent to consider taking a position as his gardener.
Asks for a character reference for a former servant of correspondent.
Thanks CD for his autograph.
ED is at work on a book to be called "Les grands phénomènes de la nature", which will furnish additional proof of CD’s doctrine.
Expounds his theory that all phenomena originate in movement.