Acknowledges JH's letter and thanks him for it. Praises JH profusely.
Acknowledges JH's letter and thanks him for it. Praises JH profusely.
Answers CD’s queries about seed lot he has just sent.
Abstract will run into a small volume.
Urges JDH not to reject natural selection until he has read abstract.
[Enclosed are CD’s comments on a ?JDH manuscript that perhaps belong elsewhere.]
Regrets being absent when JH and sons called at [JG]'s home. Hopes to show JH some peculiar electrical phenomena that [JG] observed. Encloses two letters from [W. H.] Miller.
Is pleased to hear of his support for the Young Men's Association at Leeds. Is reading the new edition of JH's Outlines Astr.
Asks about Indian horses. Encloses questions.
On the definition of an island, and an invitation to lecture about a comet.
Discusses the use in photography of a metallic substance named Junonium.
Has just returned home and found the Photographic News and the queries regarding chemical experiments and photography. Gives details, but regrets he has not published much on it yet as he is still experimenting.
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Sending a query regarding JH's philosophy.
At Hooker’s request, sends his copy of Gärtner [Bastarderzeugung (1849)], "shamefully scribbled over".
Writes to WED about his living arrangements at Christ’s College; reminisces about his own Cambridge days.
Cannot come to London until Tuesday. Arriving about 11: 15.
Thanks for letter. Will insert the information in a forthcoming issue of the Photographic News. Awaits with interest news of the new metals discovered by JH. Would like a small quantity of Junoniate of soda.
Has examined feet of many partridges, but has not been able to obtain any quantity of mud from them.
Has read WBT’s interesting communication on bees’ cells [Athenæum 16 Oct 1858]. Would like to see his excavated cells.
JH has turned round his question. Samuel Earnshaw has professed to have integrated the pipe equation. Gives an equation of his own.
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