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From:
Faraday report
To:
Trinity House
Date:
29 April 1859
Source of text:
Parliamentary Papers, 1861 [2793] XXV, volume 1, pp.2-4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
No summary available.
Would like to add JH's name to the first published list [of Scientific Relief Fund]. Regarding donations to the fund.
No summary available.
Will send first six chapters [of Origin] for the press. Sends data on size of MS and book. His "beau ideal" for type and size is Lyell’s Manual [of geology] 1st ed.
Important to his health to get the work printed quickly. Must leave home soon to stay for months at a water-cure establishment.
Asks printer to send a proof-sheet a day until he gets well ahead.
Has FS observed the slaves of Formica sanguinea foraging outside the nest.