Discusses buying a horse [for CD].
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Discusses buying a horse [for CD].
Conveys some information on a quiet horse which CD may be able to purchase from a riding school.
Believes he has found a quiet cob suitable for CD. Encloses a letter for CD to sign and send to the owner if he approves the idea.
Is leaving tonight for Genoa;
sends a French paper [not identified].
Comments on points made in Hensleigh Wedgwood’s letter [7470] on moral sense in Descent.
Mentions some photos relating to expression.
Has arranged a trip to the U. S. with Cambridge friends; believes it would be much jollier if Frank could go too.
Reports the passing of [Universities Tests] Bill and the consequent end to a bother.
Discusses his position at Cambridge, which is apparently under threat.
Gives CD some information on wills.
Discusses legal matters; CD’s will and setting up trusts for Henrietta Darwin’s forthcoming marriage.
Varying depth of top-soil in a ridge-and-furrow field with a depression.
Sends sentences from Hermann von Helmholtz about difference between minor and major chords.
Discusses the price of some heliotype prints [for Expression?].
Corrects chemical concentrations CD has been using [in insectivorous plant experimentation].
Criticises CD’s letter to Nature ["Complemental males in certain cirripedes", Collected papers 2: 177–82].
On the elimination of useless parts.
GHD fails to see the point of CD’s use of the law of distribution about a mean.
Discusses his health following a visit to Dr C[lark?]. Has made an appointment for CD.
Sends CD a draft of a letter to Nature [see 9087], which he thinks expresses CD’s meaning.
Has decided to send the letter ["Variation of organs", Nature 8 (1873): 505].
Writes of his poor health and problems of settling in at Trinity.
Sends table showing relative force of impact of weight dropped on a plane inclined at different angles.