Offers his services to CD as an observer in the Azores. Has studied the local natural history and is a great disciple of CD’s.
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Offers his services to CD as an observer in the Azores. Has studied the local natural history and is a great disciple of CD’s.
Many thanks for CD’s advice and suggestions. His letter is a great source of encouragement.
Has been collecting on the mountain summits and wants someone with whom to communicate about plants.
Thanks CD for sending Wallace’s book [see 13313]
and for writing to Hooker about FdeAF’s plants. Has written to Hooker to tell him of the plants he is sending and discuss the subject of the cypress trunks.
Thanks CD for his detailed instructions for suggested experiments.
Reports having found orthopteran egg-cases, affixed to a chalk statuette, that had themselves been coated with chalk, without doubt by the insect that deposited them.
The statues on which the egg-cases were found were perfectly clean and had never been painted.
Reports on fossilised leaf-prints he has found on the island. Found no seeds or land shells at the site.