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William's letters from America, death of his horse, snowshoes, severe winter in New York; "Ardmore" still not sold; gathering material for autobiography, does William know whereabouts of steel seal and inscription on family ring, intends to visit a Dorset clergyman who owns a painting of a member of the Wallace family and if possible photograph for the book; bulbs and seeds ordered for garden; apparent loss of books and magazines in post; William's intention to start a business in Bournemouth [with Ma]); ARW writing on white men in the tropics for the New York Independent; writing on Craig's History of Ralahine, Irish cooperative farm 1831-33, to publicise a successful experiment in Socialism.
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Possibility of teaching posts for her in Cardiff or Oxted and school visits in Jena (Germany); sending her a copies of the Humanitarian, an Anglo-Russian paper and a German psychical paper; writing an article on an Irish cooperative farm to illustrate socialism and an article for the Fortnightly; Wonderful Century not yet in German; comparison of the Maha Bharata and the Iliad; unidentifiable beetle; English tea.
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Light and the blue colour of sea water, work by Tyndall and Aitken, experiments with distilled water, scattering of light by fine particles.
JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer regarding arrangements for publishing Harriet Thiselton-Dyer's drawings [in CURTIS' BOTANICAL MAGAZINE]. JDH criticizes the publisher Dulau for giving WTTD trouble with A HAND-BOOK TO THE FLORA OF CEYLON. JDH discusses his difficulties with classifying the grasses of Ceylon [Sri Lanka], [Otto] Stapf assists him with this but they disagree on the division of tribes & Stapf's key from FLORA CAPENSIS is proving flawed. JDH is going to Dartmouth, whilst he is away [William Botting] Hemsley will look after the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.
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Light, atmospheric particles and the causes of the blue colour of sea water and sky.
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