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If WW gets 'any safe opportunity to London' JDF would like his thermometer left with Henslow [John Henslow] at the Royal Society.

Admy. - Sends an extract of a letter concerning tides. Capt. Graves wants to continue with his attention to the subject of tides.

Includes fragment of printed text from the binding of Q.0.113; two parchment fragments from the binding of I.13.76, with transcription, illustration and notes on three loose pages. One loose sheet with rubbing of bindings; one rubbing pasted in Sketch and two rubbings of bindings.

Includes notes on Jenkinsons known to be owners of books, and listed in the University Registry; news clipping about the death of a boy called Jenkinson pasted in.

The papers in this folder have been loosely bound together. They belong to the "Mémoire sur la science de l'homme" by Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon. The headings which occur among the papers include the following:
"Préface"
"Utilité pour l'espèce humaine"
"Première partie"
"Série | Plus générale et plus complette des idées capitales de Vic=d'Ajw"
"Cause de la lenteur des progrès de l'Anatomie"
"Sciences physiques"
"Résumé de l'histoire du sauvage de l'Aveyron et des faits démontrés par les observations précédentes"
"Conclusion | de Cette première Livraison"
"Lettre aux Physiologistes"

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His reactions as a 'mere historian' to the 'annals' and Durkheim's Revue. Discusses Sidgwick's chapter in the Cambridge Modern History; their disagreement in relation to Bacon and Descartes and the development of modern politics. Also mentions Locke and Hobbes.

On the purchase of a Seine Landscape by Sisley.