Discusses the buying and selling of certain railway shares.
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Discusses the buying and selling of certain railway shares.
Wants to go over remainder of species sketch when he sees JDH.
Urges JDH to go to Scotland.
Pleased JDH works on geographical distribution of Van Diemen’s Land flora.
Planning a visit to Kew. Wishes to meet H. C. Watson.
Invites BS to visit Down. Advises him to call on Daniel Sharpe. Suggests he see the work of the Ordnance Survey in Wales.
Offers to lend him Murchison’s The Silurian system [3 vols. (1839)].
CD thanks JFR for remembering about the work he wanted to borrow [Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India].
Does JFR have Ambrose Blacklock, Treatise on sheep [1838]?
Sends a letter for JW to forward to Charles Stokes concerning the purchase of Leeds and Bradford railway shares for Emma Darwin’s trust fund.
Will visit JDH on Friday. Coming by phaeton to save five changes of conveyance.
Bernhard Studer has been at Down. Studer will not be able to join HDelaB’s Ordnance Survey working party.
CD is glad to hear about very old rocks under Silurians. "There is something grand and mysterious at these depths."
Writes concerning Charles Stokes’s purchase of stock in the Leeds and Bradford Guaranteed Railway.
Is glad that JW III is settled for life at Leith Hill Place.