Murray, John

John Murray (Challenger Office) an Ernst Haeckel, Edinburgh, 23. Dezember 1879.

32 Queen Street

Edinburgh.

23 December 1879.

My dear Haeckel

I have your letter enclosing me Giltsch’s accounts. These will be sent on to the Treasury to-day. Giltsch can send in his account for the coloured plates when he has done ten of them. We have not yet counted all the plates which || Giltsch has hitherto sent but we will do so soon after the new-year, and will let you know if the number of copies be correct.

In future when Giltsch sends his plates I would like if he would make the 750 copies up into separate bundles. They were very much mixed up in the former boxes and || some of them were injured by being packed too tightly. We ought always to have one or two per cent more than the number ordered.

I have to thank you for the portrait of Darwin which came here the other day, it is very fine, also for the French translation of the Protistenreich, and for the copy of the Medusa which you say you have now || sent. Sir Wyville also desires me to thank you for the copy which you have sent him. I was at Bonsyde yesterday and Lady Thomson Miss Dawson and Miss Maclagan all desired to be remembered to you. Sir Wyville is coming into Edinburgh to-morrow and he is going to pack up and send to you || a box. – This box will not contain anything scientific, in fact is not for you but is for Mrs Haeckel and the children. This box will be sent by the Globe Express on to-morrow or at latest on the 24th inst.

I am going to Rose Bank, Perth || to-day to spend Xmas, and I have no doubt they will all be asking for you. I am glad to hear that the Phaedaria are turning out so well and I’ll be glad to get your preliminary report. I’ll get my notes on the Radiolaria extracted and sent to you || after the New year, they may be of some use to you.

My best remembrances to Mrs Haeckel and the children and wishing you all a Merry Xmas and a happy New year

Yours ever truly

John Murray.

Remembrances to Prof. Abbe, Giltsch and others at Jena.

 

Letter metadata

Verfasser
Empfänger
Datierung
23.12.1879
Entstehungsort
Entstehungsland
Besitzende Institution
EHA Jena
Signatur
EHA Jena, A 41565
ID
41565