CD very ill; tries to arrange departure meeting with JDH.
CD’s guess at composition of Maldive flora.
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CD very ill; tries to arrange departure meeting with JDH.
CD’s guess at composition of Maldive flora.
Now plans to come to Kew for an hour’s farewell if his stomach permits.
Congratulations on JDH’s Flora Antarctica [1847].
CD too unwell to see JDH. Encloses Emma’s farewell note.
Responding to GG’s offer to aid CD’s natural history researches on New Zealand, CD suggests that limestone caverns should be examined for fossils and that observations on the presence and range of erratic boulders in New Zealand would be very valuable.
Offers HM-E some specimens of Lernaea, a crustacean parasite on Balanus elongatus.
Mentions opinion of Harry Goodsir about a form CD believes to be the larva of Lernaea.
Accepts AC’s offer to conduct hybridisation experiments, and offers suggestions.
Sends book [Journal of researches, 2d ed. (1845)].
Discusses account. Glad that all is prosperous.
Seeks permission from the Trustees of the British Museum to borrow the cirripede specimens in the public collection. Explains his intention to produce a monograph of the Cirripedia.
Asks JCR to collect cirripedes for him on forthcoming expedition [to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin].
Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from the British Museum.
Reorders six 2–oz bottles with corks.
Replies to note from CL asking about views of glaciers.
"I had not heard before of Whench [Whewell?] having scolded you; I am rather glad of it …
What a grand number of novelties Hooker no doubt will bring home".
Is searching for a tooth of Carcharias which he might have left with RO.
Sends parcel of specimens for R. W. Bunsen.
A specimen of Machairodus offered for sale by F. J. Muñiz.
Discusses possible publication in England of paper by Muñiz describing the skeleton.
Sends pamphlet on scarlatina in the Pampas.
Acknowledges receipt of [The naturalist’s pocket] almanack edited by LJ. Suggests some improvements.
Thanks Mrs Lyell for barnacle specimens.
Mentions Agassiz’s classification of saurians.
Discusses letter from Chambers on "roads" in Scottish glens; views of Agassiz and Buckland on the glens.
Is reading Hugh Miller [First impressions of England and its people (1847)].
Has had two bad days with boils.
Is reading Last days of Pompeii [Edward Bulwer Lytton (1834)].