Sends the mss. and two copies of the proof for JH to check. Queries one point. Please return papers to him when they have been checked.
Sends the mss. and two copies of the proof for JH to check. Queries one point. Please return papers to him when they have been checked.
Thanks JH for advice on planned chart; explains method of dealing with unguaged areas. RP has adopted a somewhat different method of charting.
Talks about signatures needed for a fellowship certificate for the R.S.L.
CD has complained of pins and needles keeping him from working on his book [Descent]. If he could spend ten days with HBJ, he would be well and fit.
Some comments about the proposed title change [see GA's 1870-7-31].
Is preparing a catalogue of all double star observations, and is having much difficulty with the observations of J. H. Mädler.
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Despite HBJ’s good aid, CD’s stomach will not permit a visit.
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Thanks CD for compliments on the first part of his "discours",
but the later part was critical of natural selection. Nevertheless, CD should see him not as a systematic adversary, but in the camp of Quatrefages de Bréau and Milne-Edwards.
Discusses the signatures needed for a fellowship certificate for the R.S.L. [see JH's 1870-8-1 or earlier]; comments on the arrival of son Alexander home from a holiday in Norway.
MS of Descent, except last chapter, is ready to send to printer. Hopes the printer will be able to keep him steadily at work correcting proof. "It drives me mad to change from job to job."
Is glad John Lubbock made the fight he did [to amend Census Bill to enable insertion of questions on consanguineous marriages].
JM informs CD that he will have Clowes give him written assurance that the printing [of Descent] will proceed without interruption.
The [Franco-Prussian] War is a sad damper on international science and his publishing plans.
Wishes to take up a theatrical position at Aberdeen, and would be grateful for any financial assistance. Has already received £5 from the Queen.
Plans to visit Down in a week.
Sends instructions to Messrs Clowes concerning typesetting and printing of proof-sheets of Descent.
Sends last chapter of his book in press [Systems of consanguinity and affinity of the human family vol. 17 in Smithsonian contributions to knowledge (1871)], which supports CD on man.
Ethnology must study the ages of barbarism as the formative portions of man’s physical and mental history.
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