Requests to JW III and EAD as trustees of the marriage-settlement, to make some funds available.
Writes about canal shares EAD holds as trustee.
Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Asks EAD to forward a message of Anne’s improved state to Down.
Writes about the death of Anne. Wishes EAD to insert an announcement of the death in the newspapers.
Feels deeply for them at their "impossible loss" [of Anne].
Writes concerning marriage trust.
Acknowledges the receipt of some securities.
Calculations relating to bees’ cells.
Gives calculations on the structure of bees’ cells.
Encloses projections and models relating to geometry of bees’ cells.
Sends a model of bee cells "as bad as a Chinese puzzle". [A series of paper cut-out figures.]
Discusses geometry related to the structure of bees’ cells. Encloses notes and diagrams dealing with intersections of spheres.
Wonders whether CD would be interested in a book by Dr Bucknell [J. C. Bucknill?] on psychology.
Writes of "the Dr’s" [Henry Holland’s] mixed reactions to the book.
Adds a personal opinion, "it is the most interesting book I ever read".
Sends the tithes.
Asks for an order to buy a CD photograph for Mr Tait.
Asks CD to help Thomas Carlyle find and borrow a book.
His friend Trenham Reeks [Secretary of Museum of Practical Geology] would give Carlyle information and help. This note will serve as introduction.
Asks for a note to the Geological Society, since the museum did not have the book Carlyle wanted.
