Note with some photographs.
Note with some photographs.
Will be pleased for JH to see the house and grounds at any time.
Passionately protests bill before Parliament for compulsory adoption of French metric system, 'a piece of French national vanity.'
Thanks WS for his Iliad translation. JH has just finished Book 3 of his own translation of the Iliad.
Fragment of a letter discussing diffraction, JH's son's journey to observe eclipse and strong polarization of sun's corona, evidence of vast solar atmosphere.
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Has received proofs of four plates of Papilios. Encloses a tracing of specimens for fig. 4 (P. telephus) and fig. 5 P. miletus and P. jason. Wants more contrast shown.
Thanks for Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
T. S. Cobbold’s book on the Entozoa [1864].
Remarks on development of the tapeworm.
Discusses at length the means of calculating the mean daily rainfall in India, and comments on son John's work in geodesy.
Will be very pleased to assist him in obtaining the fossils, but can he give him the location of the quarries.
Ludwig Rütimeyer thanks CAB for the skull of a Chillingham cow, and thinks it may belong to the Primigenius race.
Encloses letter [missing] which he believes will clear up the part he played in Edward Sabine’s Presidential Address. Does not wish CD to think that he did not support the Origin.
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Regrets he has not yet finished his monograph on Bos. Has examined and discusses the Bos skull from Lord Tankerville.
Would like CD’s opinion on the conclusions in LR’s paper on fossil horses.
Has received the notice of the meeting, but regrets his ill health will prevent his attendance at the meeting.
Thanks for photograph, charmed by Mrs Huxley’s letter.
Regrets THH cannot do the popular work on zoology.
Has heard THH wrote leading article in last Reader ["Science and ""church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821].
Thanks for his friendly letter written on Christmas day. Regarding the Cambridge Observations just published. His own theories of hydrodynamics.
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