Thanks correspondent for his essay and kind allusions [to Cross and self-fertilisation].
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Thanks correspondent for his essay and kind allusions [to Cross and self-fertilisation].
Seeks permission to make another visit to Addiscombe [Military College] to see again the model of St Helena. He needs to correct proportion of some geological sections in his Geology [see Volcanic islands, ch. 4].
[A quotation in CD’s hand, signed and dated, from the introduction to Orchids.] "I have never once expressed a wish for aid or for information, which has not been granted, as far as possible, in the most liberal spirit."