Trying to persuade CD to visit JL.
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Trying to persuade CD to visit JL.
Sets out estimate for cutting blocks for illustrations of a trap.
Regrets CD’s poor health.
"Do not return Primula MS."
Sorry to hear of CD’s poor health.
Returns a borrowed extract from the [Zoological?] Record.
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
Asks whether he ought to write to CD while he is ill.
Wonders if he might use Haast’s notes on introduced animals for a notice he is preparing ["Note on the replacement of species in the colonies and elsewhere", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864): 123–7].
Urges Emma to bring CD to hydropathic establishment at Forres.
Family affairs.
Mrs Innes’ brother-in-law has died.
Proposes to examine CD at Down.
Sends Effie’s [K. E. Wedgwood] letter;
recounts other family news.
Is interested in CD’s thoughts on podophyllin.
Sends a translation by Mr Noel [not found] of C. B. von Cotta’s views on CD’s and Lyell’s work.
Sends some figures on long- and short-styled primroses for "Uncle Ch".
Asks Emma to write to Erasmus [E. A. Darwin] in support of Miss Elizabeth Garrett as Professor of Physiology at Bedford College for girls.
Does not like the photos; thinks they should try again.
Last account of Susan Darwin reports she is having a good deal of faintness.
CL is aware that she is dying and so says her farewells.
Mrs Hooker will not come with him to Down on Saturday.
Will be glad to see her on 4th.
Thinks Hensleigh is getting better, very slowly.
Observed expression in her baby for CD.
Relates some observations for CD on the crying of her infant daughter.