Congratulations [on election to Parliament]; hopes science will not suffer because of politics.
Previously wrote inquiring about savages and suicide, but JL need not hurry to answer.
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Congratulations [on election to Parliament]; hopes science will not suffer because of politics.
Previously wrote inquiring about savages and suicide, but JL need not hurry to answer.
CD would like questions on consanguineous marriages inserted in the Census to ascertain effects, if any, on fertility.
All the inhabitants of Down hope JL will endeavour to induce the Post Office to improve the telegraph service.
CD’s comments on proofs of JL’s book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
Praises and comments on JL’s essay on insects ["Origin of insects", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. 11 (1873): 422–5].
Asks JL to obtain copies of CD’s botanical works for his wife.
Discusses problems of obtaining money for the alteration of Down church.
CD wishes to acquire a piece of JL’s land.
Thanks for JL’s willingness to sell land.
Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.
JL’s two articles in Nature ["Common wild flowers", 10 (1874): 402–6, 422–6].
Cautions against C. K. Sprengel’s notion of bees’ being deceived by nectarless nectary.
Colour of calyces.
Writes regarding local difficulties concerning Down School and the setting up of a reading-room; his strained relationship with G. S. ffinden following some misunderstanding.
Condolences on the death of JL’s wife.