Challenger Office
32 Queen Street
Edinburgh.
15 October 1880.
My dear Haeckel
I have sent you to-day a box a containing some things from our late trip in the sea to the North of Scotland. – These are mostly surface things and two specimens of the mud. I wish you would let me know the || genera of Radiolaria in the surface gatherings.
Sir Wyville wishes to know them for a preliminary Report which he is preparing of this trip.
You will find a very large Lucenaria. Is not this a very large specimen? I never came across anything so large before. The number | of acanthometrae on the surface was quite wonderful, and you will see b from the contents of some of the bottles – and yet I cannot detect any of the spicules in the mud at the bottom!! Can you?
There is also an actinia from deep water in one of the bottles. I sent you long ago some actinia from the Challenger. Have you ever examined these. If || you have no time to look after these actinia, could you not give them to some pupil to report.
I enclose you again the note you sent me in your last letter. Can you not get the bill you paid to the Railway c people or a copy of it? If you cannot they would you write || out the note again and add what I have put on the back of it. The Treasury people require us to produce either the accounts we pay or else this form. I heard of you lately from Turner.
A lot of our Memoirs are now printed. Sir Wyville is very well at present.
Remember me || kindly to Mrs Haeckel and the children and believe me
Yours ever truly
John Murray.
a gestr.: to-day; b gestr.: from; c irrtüml. Dopplung: way
