V. O. Kovalevsky, Russian translator [of Variation], wishes to hear THH lecture.
V. O. Kovalevsky, Russian translator [of Variation], wishes to hear THH lecture.
Comments on the proofs of his book that he has received so far. Has been ill and not feeling like intellectual work, so would he request his printer to send no more sheets for the time being.
JH responds to UL's concern about the Isaac Newton-Blaise Pascal forgeries [see UL's 1869-10-4].
Sends [William Whewell's] 'Isle of Sirens' and an acknowledgement to it in 'skimble skamble Hexameters.' Is eager to receive solar photographs and will send others by Professor [George?] Morton.
Chickens have arrived safely.
About corrections he is making on one of Lyell's books.
Blushing begins as early as the fifth year.
Regarding Dr. Thomas Andrews's Bakerian lecture and the gaseous and liquid states. Comments on this and his previously stated theory. Has seen Alexander Herschel and thinks he should receive more credit for his work on the Meteor Committee. Scientific education of young people.
Sends letter from Candolle [6915] proposing an experiment with seeds that seems excellent. CD has little time and strength but will do his best. If the staff at Kew could do it, it would be wisest to hand the whole lot over to JDH.
Mentions views of Sars on species.
EH’s work on Siphonophora.
Sends proof sheet of JH's approval letter before it goes to printer.
Regarding Michel Chasles and the Isaac Newton-Blaise Pascal forgeries.
No summary available.
Comments on liquid and gaseous states of matter and on colloids; appreciates EB's kind words about JH's son Alexander.
No summary available.
Is extremely grateful for his comments on his book and will try to incorporate them. His book is intended as an introduction only. Delegates prefer s instead of z.
Has forwarded the horse’s tooth, sent by JO, to Huxley, who may be able to identify it.
Both sexes of Mononychus pseudacori and other Coleoptera stridulate.
Acknowledges receipt of CD’s Primula paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 437–54].
Nectar-sucking birds fertilise tropical flowers.
Writing a "Dualistic apologia for Pangenesis" [see translation in Sci. Opin. 2 (1869): 365–7, 391–3, 407–8].
Homology of the orchid rostellum.
Federico Delpino’s book has very nearly all that THF has found and a great deal more.