Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
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The Charles Darwin Collection
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Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Feels deeply for them at their "impossible loss" [of Anne].
Acknowledges the receipt of some securities.
Calculations relating to bees’ cells.
Gives calculations on the structure of bees’ cells.
Encloses projections and models relating to geometry of bees’ cells.
Sends a model of bee cells "as bad as a Chinese puzzle". [A series of paper cut-out figures.]
Discusses geometry related to the structure of bees’ cells. Encloses notes and diagrams dealing with intersections of spheres.
Wonders whether CD would be interested in a book by Dr Bucknell [J. C. Bucknill?] on psychology.
Writes of "the Dr’s" [Henry Holland’s] mixed reactions to the book.
Adds a personal opinion, "it is the most interesting book I ever read".
Sends the tithes.
Asks for an order to buy a CD photograph for Mr Tait.
Asks CD to help Thomas Carlyle find and borrow a book.
Asks for a note to the Geological Society, since the museum did not have the book Carlyle wanted.
Never mind the letter to the Geological Society; the museum got the book for Carlyle.
Describes a box which has come for CD.
Asks for John Price’s address.
Has signed for the shares. Fears CD’s "good time" has not lasted long.
Will be glad to have CD.
Moncure Conway wants to call on CD.
EAD has seen the extract from Mill’s [System of] Logic which Carpenter read when arguing CD should have the Copley. Has CD seen it?
CD has been seriously ill. Doubts he will be able to receive a visit.