Asks his opinion concerning possible investment. Asks about possible land sale to Mr Mason.
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Asks his opinion concerning possible investment. Asks about possible land sale to Mr Mason.
Thanks for case of inherited malconformation.
Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.
Discusses capacity of some cirripedes to bore into rock. Describes progress of his research.
CD hopes to have an hour’s talk with CJFB before CD leaves London.
Discusses the [CD/Emma] marriage trust.
Two letters have arrived for WED.
Joseph has had two teeth out.
Writes concerning marriage trust.
Thanks JWF and G. R. Waterhouse for cirripede specimens.
Discusses attachment of antennae in larvae of cirripedes.
Asks for information about how parasitic cirripedes are attached to host.
Acknowledges contribution to Down Coal and Clothing Club.
Thanks MM for reference to Shakespeare’s eleventh sonnet.
Requests permission to include foreign species in Fossil Cirrpedia (1851). Asks whether sponges arrived. Has not yet heard from Pearce about Pollicipes concinus.
Is coming tomorrow to see Lorenz Spengler on cirripedes [Auserlesne Schnecken, Muscheln und andre Schaalthiere (1758)] and the remaining sessile cirripedes in the collection. Has finished Balanus.
Accepts invitation for the 20th.
Detailed critique of CL’s A manual of elementary geology [3d ed. (1851), used in editing 4th ed. (1852)].
Sends thanks for a note and returned drawing.
He is sending more text.
Declines invitation to Chevening [Lord Stanhope’s residence].
Receipt for £3 5s, proceeds of a lecture, for the Down Coal and Clothing Club.
CD is pleased with plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]; most corrections need only a touch. Requests revises soon and asks how much he owes.