Likes WP’s book [Buenos Ayres and the province of La Plata (1838)]. Thinks it will interest all "who care for graver things than what the traveller eats and says to the Señoritas".
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Likes WP’s book [Buenos Ayres and the province of La Plata (1838)]. Thinks it will interest all "who care for graver things than what the traveller eats and says to the Señoritas".
Sends names of species found in banks of marine shells near Buenos Aires. Shells identified by G. B. Sowerby (elder). [See South America, pp. 2–3.]
Comments on WP's account of a meteor striking ground in America.
Sends newspaper article about the meteor fall in Oswego County. Compares the account to a meteorite that fell in the Santiago Plains of Chile. Discusses authenticity of suspected meteorite specimens.
Places JH's name in a volume containing an account of the meteorite that struck ground [in North America]. WP also includes a description of the coca trees of Peru [in which JH took an interest].