Asks to borrow an old pair of GN’s dissecting scissors so that Weiss & Co. can use it as a model.
Health has been poor.
Has finished MS on pedunculated cirripedes for Ray Society [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1 (1851)].
Returns scissors with thanks.
Young John Lubbock who has a strong taste for dissecting insects would benefit greatly from conversation with GN.
Sends cheque for subscription [£20].
Expresses his strong opinion that Huxley’s paper ["Agamic reproduction and morphology of Aphis", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 22 (1858): 193–220, 221–36] should be published.
No summary available.
A title page of Volume 15: Correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith with Sir Thomas Frankland, 6th baronet and Mary Watson-Wentworth, marchioness of Rockingham
Note on Mary Watson-Wentworth's grandparents and pedigree.
A title page of Volume 16: Correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith and Mariamne and Thomas Johnes and Andrew Fountaine
A title page of Volume 17: Correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith and William Roscoe
A title page of Volume 18: Correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith and Thomas Jenkinson Woodward
Three title pages of Volume 19: Correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith and his father, James Smith, his mother, Frances Smith, and wife, Pleasance Smith
A title page and contents page of Volume 2 of James Edward Smith's Correspondence
A title page and contents page of Volume 3 of James Edward Smith's Correspondence
A title page and contents page of Volume 4 of James Edward Smith's Correspondence
A title page and contents page of Volume 5 of James Edward Smith's Correspondence
A title page and contents page of Volume 6 of James Edward Smith's Correspondence
A title page and contents page of Volume 7 of James Edward Smith's Correspondence as well as a portrait of Thomas Martyn and a note on the correspondence from Thomas Martyn
A title page and contents page of Volume 8 of James Edward Smith's Correspondence
A copy of W. Say's engraving of F. Chantrey's bust of Smith, a brief general introduction by Pleasance Smith, and a contents page that preceeds the letters.
A title page and contents page of Volume 9 of James Edward Smith's Correspondence