Notes on part of CD’s species sketch.
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Notes on part of CD’s species sketch.
Will come to 7 Park St. on Wednesday for a palaver on distribution, species mutability, migration, etc.
[Extract of letter to WJH from T. E. Cantor] on zoological distribution in the Malay Peninsula.
JDH’s aunt cannot find lodgings for CD.
Similarities between floras of Tierra del Fuego, Van Diemen’s Land, and New Zealand; does not feel migration sufficient explanation.
Asks JDH not to think of looking at his species sketch until he has leisure.
Cirripede observations.
Would like to hear what JDH has to say about his species sketch.
Can JDH come to 7 Park St. on Wednesday?
Illness has delayed his departure. Will try to call on JDH on Thursday.
Thanks for JDH’s notes on species sketch. Proposes to drive to Kew to discuss them with him.
Health permitting, proposes to visit Kew on Friday.
Health bad, cannot get to Kew.
Will send Nulliporae to [L. A.?] Reeve.
JDH’s proposed India trip.
Will sorely miss discussions with JDH on species theory.
CD is getting on wretchedly with cirripedes.
Must look after his wife, so is unable to come to visit.
Thanks for H. C. Watson’s interesting letter. Disagrees with him on intermediate varieties.
CD has read latest numbers of JDH’s The botany of the Antarctic voyage [pt I, Flora Antarctica (1844–7)]; notes several sentences against "us Transmutationists".
Delighted that Brongniart thinks Sigillaria aquatic, and that E. W. Binney thinks coal is a sort of submarine peat. Thinks coal-plants will prove to be aquatic, though JDH will sneer at this.
Has acquired a new microscope.
CD defends his position on submarine coal formation and coal-plants against JDH’s strong objections.
Thinks JDH should arrange his facts against the aquatic formation of coal.
CD would like to call on JDH.
Will call on JDH on Thursday, if convenient.
Has heard JDH does not return until tomorrow, so will not be able to see him at Kew but hopes to do so at Oxford meeting of BAAS.
Bunbury and Falconer strongly against idea of coal being submarine.