Sends list of bills.
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Sends list of bills.
Has no chance of paying his debts, and asks for money.
Has just heard that 1st volume of Dutch edition [of Descent] has been announced for 10 December. Was CD aware that the Dutch intended to publish vol. 1 by itself?
Progress on his Russian translation of Descent.
Alexander Kovalevsky is at Tor in Sinai, where C. G. Ehrenberg was in 1827.
Has CD seen Ernst Haeckel’s new book [Biologische Studien (1870–7)]?
Forgot to send books.
Saw Miss [Henrietta] Darwin; chastised her for being out when book [Descent] has not yet appeared.
CD elected Associate Member of the Royal Belgian Academy.
CD has been nominated as a Membre Associé of the Belgian Royal Academy.
Discusses crustacean embryology; EvB is at variance with Dohrn.
Congratulations on Leonard Darwin’s success at Woolwich Academy.
Mentions the current activities of his own sons and of some old acquaintances.
Would be pleased to be visited by CD.
J. Wyman will make observations on black pigs and white pigs in Florida.
Has received a letter, and two packets of securities.
Comments on George’s escape.
Congratulates CD on his election to L’Académie Royale de Belgique.
CD is correct; his notes are on the Jollof, not the Tollof, tribe.
Confirms number of shares.
Reports on conversation with Henry Holland.