Discusses cirripede specimens borrowed from HC.
Discusses cirripede specimens borrowed from HC.
Discusses cirripedes collected by JDD.
Gratified that he agrees "to some extent" with CD’s views on coral reefs.
Mentions his health.
Asks for JDD’s publication on cirripedes.
Sends message from William Baird concerning Crustacea research of J. O. Westwood.
Mentions Joseph Leidy’s discovery of cirripede eyes.
CD thinks great dam across Yangma valley is a lateral glacial moraine.
Reports on Birmingham BAAS meeting.
Details of water-cure.
Barnacles becoming tedious; careful description shows slight differences constitute varieties, not species.
Lamination of gneiss.
Agrees to subscribe £1 toward the portrait of a bishop of Norwich.
Thanks him for specimens of Alcippe.
Comments on sketches by AH and on cirripede paper by Lovén.
Discusses Lithotrya and its burrowing habits.
Orders books [Hugh Miller, Foot-prints of the Creator (1849)
and Carl Wilhelm von Humboldt, Thoughts and opinions of a statesman, Sir Arthur Helps, ed. (1849)].
Asks MEL to translate page of paper by Sven Lovén ["Ny art af Cirripedia", Ofvers. K. Vetensk. Acad. Forh. Stockholm 1 (1844): 192–4]. CD is "dreadfully interested" in the barnacles [Alepas squalicola] described.
Hopes Charles Lyell’s "craters of Denudation" prosper.
Thanks JSH for information and suggestions on benefit clubs,
and for a shipment of fossil cirripedes.
J. B. Innes is greatly obliged for JSH’s letter. JSH’s observation of chalk flints strikes CD as "very curious".
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Thanks for promise of kind intervention on his behalf, but he believes that JH would not advise him to publish the work in England. Thinks it would be more welcome in Germany. Would like comments and corrections.
Has heard nothing beyond what GA has said [see GA's 1849-9-25], but agrees with GA's assessment of the situation.
Discusses B.A.A.S. resolution regarding the Cape observatory. Wants accurate drawings of nebulae to attempt to ascertain change. Wants JH to petition government to get reflector at Cape.
Will not urge government to construct a great reflector at the Cape; believes it should be done through private funding; does look forward to the time when his work on southern skies will be reexamined. [See TR's 1849-10-21.]
Asks JH's opinion on a passage from [John] Williams's Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Seas regarding unusual tides in Tahiti and Society Islands.
About adjudication of R.S.L. medals.