Forwarded JH's request for additional £16 [to publish map of nebulae] to [R.S.L. secretaries] William Sharpey and G. G. Stokes. Expects approval.
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Forwarded JH's request for additional £16 [to publish map of nebulae] to [R.S.L. secretaries] William Sharpey and G. G. Stokes. Expects approval.
Is trying to make arrangements for Thomas Maclear's son Harry to find a means of survival, and is seeking JH's advice.
JH's catalog of nebulae, reduced to 1880 as originally planned, is nearly complete and consumed all of £20 granted by R.S.L. Seeks £16 more to expand catalog and reduce data to 1860, as recommended by G. B. Airy.
Needs to know soon if R.S.L. will approve grant to expand JH's catalog of nebulae. Otherwise G. B. Airy will dismiss man employed to do those computations. [JH annotation: Sent similar letter to G. G. Stokes on same date.]
Notes and observations on orchids.
Further information on his invention of the floating barometer.
Edward Sabine sent JH's letter to GS with instructions to forward it to William Sharpey. Sees no difficulty in proceeding.
Observations on Welwitschia.
No summary available.
Jamieson has revisited Glen Roy and confirmed his theory of glacier lakes.
A. G. More considers CD the most profound of reasoners.
Family illnesses.
On disposition of wild honeycomb gift.
Discounts the difficulty presented by ostrich wings.
Would be pleased to have third edition of Origin.
Is unwell and dreads the winter.
Unable to appoint a Mr. Maclea [Harry Maclear], on whose behalf JH had applied, to Cadetship in the Royal Marines, in justice to many older candidates.
Emma and Leonard have scarlet fever.
Houstonia seems "a grand case"; J. T. Rothrock should publish his observations on the two pollens and the reciprocal action of two hermaphrodites.
Rhexia glandulosa offers nothing odd, but Heterocentron will turn out something marvellous like Lythrum.
Would like to know what AG thinks of last chapter of Orchids.
Regarding a purported relation of Caroline Herschel and her right to any property.
Leonard Darwin’s illness.
William Darwin and the bank.
Beginning to make out a marvellous case of trimorphism.
Thanks for monstrous floral specimen, but it is a common one.
Lythrum. Wants to examine fresh flowers of Lythraceae. Lythrum salicaria has interested him very much.
Microscopes.
Asks whether JDH can think of plants that have different coloured anthers or pollen in same flowers (as in Melastoma) or on same and in different plants as in Lythrum. Would be a safe guide to dimorphism.
Observation of action of pollen in Linum grandiflorum.
Relates personal news about family members.
CD is "glad Glen Roy is settled".
Mentions evolutionary remarks on birds by Owen.
Compares variability among lower and higher organisms. Comments on Hooker’s view of the subject.
Forthcoming publication of Huxley’s book [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)] and Lyell’s [Antiquity of man (1863)].
No summary available.