Sign enclosed authorization for Few & Co. to obtain Hollier Trust deeds from bank. Deeds will be exchanged for £1000.
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Sign enclosed authorization for Few & Co. to obtain Hollier Trust deeds from bank. Deeds will be exchanged for £1000.
Sees difficulties in adhering to the concept of design in nature.
Is surprised at Hooker’s and Daniel Oliver’s ignorance regarding spontaneous movements of tendrils.
CD should continue his work on climbing plants, "it will be fruitful in your hands".
Family and local news, and memories of old times.
CD’s youngest son, Horace, is too delicate to go to school.
CD has had a bad summer, is still ill, can do very little work – "Botany … is all that I am good for".
Three maps of meteors observed in 1863 by JH[?] and Alexander Herschel
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Outlining the events leading to the rejection of his claim for the French Academy medal for mathematics.
Thanks CD for his letter and geological report on the stones JJA sent.
Encloses postage stamps for CD’s son.
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Responds with thanks to GT, a fellow trustee of the British Museum, who has written to welcome JH and congratulate him on his election. JH is concerned about having enough time to fulfill his obligations.
Sends address.
Comments on BAAS meeting at Newcastle.
His bad health has caused him to return to Malvern.
Emma cannot find the gravestone of their child, Anne. Asks WDF whether he can remember its location.
Explains "Duke Darwinii" reference [in 4283].
Family news.
Writes of Scottish immorality and pious talk.
Has returned from trip to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
Has been made President of the Ethnological Society.
Encloses a four-page printed pamphlet on the cruelty of steel traps [see Collected papers 2: 83–4].
Glad to find they are cousins.
Sends his book [High Elms (pseud.), The game-preserver’s manual (1858)].
Gives directions to CD’s daughter’s [Anne’s] grave.
Will come and visit him on Friday afternoon.
Has received his note with the queries. Will be forwarding a copy of last week's proceedings to him later.
Comments on JP’s work [Old Price’s remains (1863–4)].
Anglo-American relations. Progress of the Civil War.