News of Cambridge: the recent examinations; memorial tablet for Marmaduke Ramsay.
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News of Cambridge: the recent examinations; memorial tablet for Marmaduke Ramsay.
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.
Specimens being sent off. Describes his collection of rocks, plants, and insects. Some particularly interesting specimens.
A French collector [Alcide d’Orbigny] has been at the Rio Negro and will probably have "taken the cream". CD’s luck with fossil bones, among them a large extinct armadillo-like animal. Describes some birds, toads, Crustacea, and other marine specimens. Nearly all plants flowering at Bahia Blanca were collected. Is sending two large casks of fossil bones by packet.