Asks GB to sign certificate for Francis Darwin [candidate for Royal Society].
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Asks GB to sign certificate for Francis Darwin [candidate for Royal Society].
Letter of introduction for V. O. Kovalevsky.
Wants plants with two sets of anthers of different colours. Fritz Müller letter [13041a] has made him wish to renew experiments and observations carried out 20 years ago.
Wants Monochaetum flowers for examination as he has forgotten the structure and cannot publish until he has repeated his observations and experiments.
Thanks for Monochaetum flowers; his old notes have now become intelligible.
About Francis Darwin’s application for election to [Royal] Society.
Wants Trifolium seed.
Has been rereading WTT-D’s letters on "bloom".
Wants a Clematis identified. Has been observing how earthworms drag down its petioles.
Thanks for WTT-D’s attempts to get the Trifolium seeds.
Encloses a letter from J. D. Hooker [see 1257], thinking that WJH would like to see it.
Progress of his and Frank Darwin’s work; "all natural science seems now to depend on section-cutting".
Would be grateful for some Euphorbia species for examination of the roots. "The subject is by no means worth all the labour I am bestowing on it, but I cannot bear to be beaten."
Magnificent supply of Euphorbiae arrived safely.
Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.
Has collected [Phalli] in Shropshire and compared them with Barmouth species. Is convinced they are different.
Asks JSH for introductions to R. T. Lowe and Andrew Smith.
Has been given another week’s respite by FitzRoy.
Asks JSH to take charge of his consignments of specimens from the voyage.
Hopes to be able to help Cambridge Philosophical Society with his collections, but thinks most will have to go to British Museum.
Describes Beagle quarters, the surgeon [Robert McCormick, M.D.], and officers.
Asks JSH’s advice on studying mathematics.
Sailing date fixed for end of month. Beagle is beautiful. Details of instructions and route. Hopes voyage will not exceed four years. Quarters very confined. Considers Jenyns did wisely in not coming. If CD were longer out of college and some years older he never could have endured it.
Confusion on board the Beagle at definite prospect of sailing. Gives directions for sending mail to Montevideo.
His first letter to JSH since December. Recounts his seasickness, geologising and marine collecting at St Jago [Santiago, Cape Verde Is.]; his first tropical forest. Collecting small insects from the tropics. His Welsh trip with Sedgwick has been extremely valuable.