CD’s urine sample was probably alkaline when passed. The deposit was phosphate of lime. Prescribes a new antacid and continuation of podophyllin. He can judge CD’s state as described by his letter.
CD’s urine sample was probably alkaline when passed. The deposit was phosphate of lime. Prescribes a new antacid and continuation of podophyllin. He can judge CD’s state as described by his letter.
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Replies to queries on climbing plants.
JDH meets Scott and finds him an intelligent and superior-looking man. Scott wishes to come to Down before leaving England.
Horace Darwin making progress, but tires easily and does not like drudgery.
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Scott would be very welcome at Down for a short visit.
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Asks JDH to name a Bignonia.
Coming to end of climbing plants paper.
Did JH know when he was Master of the Mint that Isaac Newton had introduced a golden quarter-guinea? Most of his family are at Aldeburgh. Does he know Tristram Shandy's sense of proportion? Charles Babbage has become a public benefactor by the passing of the act against barrel organs.
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Regrets the expense incurred by the enclosed letter. Sends the report from the Colonial Office.
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R. I. Murchison has criticised ACR’s glacial lake theory in his Presidential Address to Royal Geographical Society [J. R. Geogr. Soc. 34 (1864): cix–cxcii].
ACR has finished his Geology of N. Wales.
News of Herschel family. JH asks for information about 'India Stock' [investments].
If RC's formulas for sunspots are correct, then 'trade-wind theory' is challenged and sun's photosphere may behave as envelope circulating around sun according to laws of planetary motion. Questions formula relating to sunspot velocity.