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Has long advocated the right to contract. Has no fear that the metrical system will become compulsory. American named J. W. Nystrom wishes to introduce a unit of 16. Comments on the Bible being 'every word of it is God's word.'
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Review of Spencer was by Chauncey Wright.
Will get a note on John Scott’s paper off to Sillimans Journal [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 39 (1865): 101–10].
Admires THH’s article on Kölliker’s and Flourens’ criticisms of Origin [in Natural History Review (1864): 566–80].
Professor W. J. M. Rankine lent JN JH's paper on the meter, yard, and foot. Would JH present a copy to the Institution of Engineers in Scotland? JN is president at the moment and hopes to introduce this subject. Hopes that JH will publish any further ideas he has on the subject.
Was pleased with JH's weighty and judicious rebuke. Sends a copy of a letter he wrote to the Times concerning religion and the natural sciences.
Sends £10 for Down charities.
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Surprised at Kölliker’s misunderstanding; of Flourens he could have believed anything.
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Has heard about but not read Origin; is concerned that it may contribute to unbelief. Gives many pages of scriptural quotations and exegesis on the creation of earth, species, etc.
Submits some observations concerning the experiment mentioned in JH's last letter [1864-9-25]. Discusses in detail his results of an experiment concerning the impossibility of a stable equilibrium. Decides stable equilibrium exists only in vertical position, not in horizontal. Sends another copy of his latest paper. Mentions a printing error in his memoir concerning molecular attraction.
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Encloses lithographs of some of his drawings of nebulae, and two tracings of [?] 2241. Has presented his large equatorial to Melbourne and invited the Astronomer Royal [G. B. Airy] to Malta to observe through the telescope before it is dispatched to Australia. Would also welcome a visit from JH.
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Asks anyone who possesses a treatise on gardening, or an almanac, one or two centuries old, to look up what date is given as the proper period for sowing scarlet runners or dwarf French beans. CD wants to ascertain whether these plants can now be sown earlier than was formerly the case.
Responds to the letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle, [before 8 October 1864].