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Henry Forbes in a letter to Moseley describes herons on the Keeling Islands.

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On the disease-resisting qualities and yield of certain potatoes.

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Thanks HWC and the Birmingham Philosophical Society for their address in his honour.

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Thanks JLC for his letter, pedigree, and MS of the history of the Darwin family.

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Potatoes will be lost unless JT has immediate authority to proceed.

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Thanks CD for his cheque for £100. Has told Secretary of BAAS Committee [for the Station], so that he may report it. [See O. J. R. Howarth, The British Association (1931), pp. 196–7.]

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Thanks for CD’s appreciation of his work on family history. Sends one of his books [unidentified].

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Writes on family matters and researches.

Mentions construction of a pendulum

and completion of a paper he will send to the Royal Society.

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Going to London today to speak to T. H. Farrer about funds for potato breeding experiments. "I have told Farrer I would subscribe £50."

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Is in town and will call on Sunday morning.

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The Colonel [J. L. Chester] is pleased [see 12509].

Jos[iah Wedgwood III] is dying.

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Wonders whether Lord Derby would advance him the money to continue his work.

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Is prepared to continue his work, if financial help is forthcoming.

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Has sent off paper to the Royal Society

and begun work on a new problem which he feels contains the meaning of Bode’s Law, concerning the mean distances of the planets from the sun. There are mathematical difficulties, however, which he may be unable to surmount.

Will get to work on the pendulum next week.

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Thanks for LW’s work [Studien über die Stammesgeschichte der Ammoniten (1880)].

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Encloses check [cheque!?] for £50. James Caird will guarantee £75 and T. H. Farrer £25. Above gentlemen think JT should get report on his experiments from independent agriculturists.

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P.S. to letter posted that morning. James Caird cannot pledge £75. Erasmus Darwin and Hensleigh Wedgwood will subscribe. May write letter to the Times. Asks for report on experiments.

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Writes of the weather,

his reading of Huxley’s Crayfish [1880],

and domestic matters.

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Thanks for copy of TLB’s Pharmacology [1880].

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Sends funds for potato experiments. Asks for information on progress.