Challenger Expedition Office,
45 Frederick Street
EDINBURGH,
17 July 1890
My Dear Haeckel
We only got settled down here last week. We are now both in good health again. I never received any letters from you in Algeria or Gibraltar.
I am glad you || are going to write about „Plankton”. We have not as yet used this word in English, and I do not see any special advantage in its use.
I don’t think there are any special papers on the subject in English. In the narrative there is a great deal scattered || through the pages on the results of the surface and deep tow-nets but no discussion of the subject as a whole except in so far as bearing on the deposits. I will discuss the subject in the last volume.
When are you coming to England? You said your eldest daughter would come to England to school || I think. If she does come my wife would be delighted if she would come to stay a month with us. Perhaps she would come in August?
With best remembrances to all your family
Yours sincerely
John Murray
I don’t agree with Henson as to the results of his discussion. ||
If you come here in August you may have a sail in a yacht belonging to my father in law. J. M.a
a Text weiter am Kopf von S. 1: If you come … in law. J. M.
