JL is off to visit Scotch "kjökken möddings".
Hopes Lyell is not really vexed by his article.
JL is off to visit Scotch "kjökken möddings".
Hopes Lyell is not really vexed by his article.
Has returned from trip to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
Has been made President of the Ethnological Society.
Is working on a notice for the Natural History Review [n.s. 4 (1864): 37–43] of Huxley’s lectures to working men on the origin of species.
Sorry to hear of CD’s poor health.
Returns a borrowed extract from the [Zoological?] Record.
JL’s article on Huxley’s "Lectures [to working men]".
Planning a volume of essays [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Has obtained microscopes for CD.
Wishes to borrow volumes 1 and 3 of Narrative [vol. 1 by Capt. P. P. King, vol. 3 by CD].
Congratulates CD on receiving the Copley Medal.
Vexed at the address of the President of the Royal Society [on award of Copley medal to CD].
JL’s MS at printer’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Apologises for failure to post letter.
Thanks for his letter. Sorry to hear that JH's name is not on the Register, but can they add his name to JL's Committee? His father is very ill.
Delighted at CD’s praise of his book [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Has seen JH's nephew and will be pleased to sign his certificate. His instinct and reason are against dating Stonehenge as post-Roman.
Thanks for his letter. Agrees that the stones of Stonehenge must have come from the neighborhood. The chips in the barrows must have come from the hewn stones of Stonehenge.
Returns [Fritz?] Müller’s work [probably Für Darwin (1864)]. It is a remarkable memoir.
No summary available.
Returns Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Anxious to make acquaintance of Ernst Haeckel [who was staying with CD].
JL’s brother-in-law [Robert Birkbeck] would like a note of introduction to John Murray.