| Description | Informs Professor [John Bretland] Farmer that he [Walker] and [J. E. S.] Moore would like to have an exhibit at the Royal Soiree if it can be arranged. Discusses a muddle about getting the illustrations engraved for his leucocyte paper. Expresses annoyance that the Royal Society's estimate for the illustrations was £18: although he got a private estimate for £7-10, the Royal Society would not allow him to have the illustrations done in this secondhand way. Notes that 'to a mere outsider it looks as though some one were doing rather well out of the illustrations, and when a case turns up where there are no commissions going, as there certainly would not be in this one, they wont [sic] have it at any price'. Also expresses the opinion that 'all White's blarney about its being necessary for him to be in direct communication with the workmen is nonsense' as the engraver that the Royal Society uses (Collings) does not make all his own blocks. |