Sends parcel of specimens for R. W. Bunsen.
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Sends parcel of specimens for R. W. Bunsen.
A specimen of Machairodus offered for sale by F. J. Muñiz.
Discusses possible publication in England of paper by Muñiz describing the skeleton.
Sends pamphlet on scarlatina in the Pampas.
Acknowledges receipt of [The naturalist’s pocket] almanack edited by LJ. Suggests some improvements.
Thanks Mrs Lyell for barnacle specimens.
Mentions Agassiz’s classification of saurians.
Discusses letter from Chambers on "roads" in Scottish glens; views of Agassiz and Buckland on the glens.
Is reading Hugh Miller [First impressions of England and its people (1847)].
Has had two bad days with boils.
Is reading Last days of Pompeii [Edward Bulwer Lytton (1834)].