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RF’s specimens have arrived.
Because of health, CD will postpone coming to London until all drawings are finished.
Asks JdeCS, if he is able "with any honesty", to "purloin" for him a proof-sheet of Frederick Dixon’s plate with cirripedes [in Geology and fossils … of Sussex (1850)].
Requests statement of total owed to JdeCS as a guide to the future.
Read letter from CD offering a monograph of British fossil cirripedes.
Regrets delay in sending pamphlets for JDD.
Thanks him for information concerning cirripedes.
Sends thanks to Charles Pickering for information about plant distribution.
Discusses boring species of cirripedes.
Believes Harry D. S. Goodsir mistaken about parasites on Balanus ["Observations on organs of generation in Crustacea", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 36 (1843–4): 183–6]. In fact parasites are the males of the species.
Is sending JSB sponges.
He returns the Plumularia on which the beautiful Scalpellum ornatum was attached. [See 1229.]
Has lost a good many days and will need another fortnight to finish the pedunculate fossil cirripedes. The Palaeontographical Society will publish the fossil species. "If I was but better in health, I shd work quicker."
Explains that he is working on recent and fossil Cirripedia, and asks if WD can aid him with specimens of Roemer’s Pollicipes species.
Comments on paper by CHLW.
Considers effect of heat on bending of strata, and producing volcanoes and elevation.
"I can have no doubt that speculative men, with a curb on, make far the best observers."
Comments on CL’s Anniversary address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 6 (1850): xxvii–lxvi]. Notes CL’s criticism of R. I. Murchison’s catastrophism.
Asks whether there are Lower Cretaceous beds in Scandinavia. Thinks Leopold von Buch must have neglected them.
Results of crosses in Phlox.
Thanks JSB for cirripede specimens. Discusses publication [of Fossil Cirripedia].
Discusses his membership in Palaeontographical Society.
Discusses mollusc specimens and related notes sent to AH. Thanks him for cirripede specimens. Discusses various cirripede species.
Thanks JSB for information regarding Sylvanus Hanley’s residence.
Sends stamps for specimen.
Describes progress of cirripede research. Palaeontographical Society will publish monograph [Fossil Cirripedia].
Thanks SPW for his history of Aptychus, which makes A. D. d’Orbigny’s view [that it is a cirripede] improbable. [See Fossil Cirripedia 1: 3.]
Specimens SPW sent are very useful and interesting.
Illustration of RF’s fossil cirripede specimens by J. de C. Sowerby.
AH may keep CD’s MS as long as he likes.
Comments on various cirripede species. "I mean now to continue at Systematic Part till I have finished."
Describes progress of research on fossil cirripedes. Comments on specimens sent by JS. Asks about age of several European formations, and for information about specimens.
Replies to CD’s questions regarding impregnation of peas, beans, cabbages, and other plants by insects, wind, etc.
Spoke too harshly about CD’s involvement in nomenclatural reform.
JDH used to think CD "too prone to theoretical considerations about species", hence was pleased CD took up a difficult group like barnacles. CD’s theories have progressed but JDH not converted. Sikkim has not cleared up his doubts about CD’s doctrines.
Argument with Falconer.