Has found a temporary tenant for his house.
Has found a temporary tenant for his house.
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Thanks for THH’s review of Origin in Macmillan’s Magazine ["Time and life: Mr Darwin’s Origin of Species", 1 (1859–60): 142–8]. Reception of natural selection will depend on whether it explains the recognised laws in the several fields of natural history.
Domestic variation.
Mentions English scientists who support mutability of species.
Asks QdeB whether he could help locate a French translator and publisher.
Queries regarding C. J. G. Pastorff's observations. Believes author is now dead, but can he inform him concerning his mode of observation.
Thanks for the fragment of poor [Ben?]. Comments on this and the composition of the metal of bells.
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Will be pleased to see him on Wednesday. Hopes he will stay the night.
Sending R. C. Carrington's certificate for JH's signature.
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Informs JH which observatories received the object lenses from his workshops.
Charles Lyell has given her JH's translation of J. W. Goethe's poem. Comments on it.
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Lists dimensions of the equatorial telescope at Paris Observatory.
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Congratulates CD on Origin; has been "initiated into an entirely new province of knowledge".
Notes error involving rhinoceros.
Encloses other notes.