Encloses photographs taken of the last eclipse. Draws his attention to certain aspects of the eclipse.
Encloses photographs taken of the last eclipse. Draws his attention to certain aspects of the eclipse.
No summary available.
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Sends prints of solar photographs taken last week at Kew, as requested by Warren de La Rue. Regrets that picture on 11 Feb. was unsatisfactory.
VOK and his wife walked 25 miles through the Prussian lines to Paris.
Natural history collections undamaged by bombardment, but Edmond Hébert and A. J. Gaudry fear Prussians will rob them.
Several sheets of Descent lost as they passed through the lines.
No summary available.
Bound copies [of Descent] have been dispatched to CD.
Robert Cooke, JM’s cousin and partner, has been nominated for Athenaeum; asks CD’s support.
Begs CD not to permit any notice by F. P. Cobbe to appear until after next week.
A poem, "Burns to Darwin".