CD has read WK’s abstract in the Scotsman, 15 February 1840, p. 3, and asks for further details.
CD has read WK’s abstract in the Scotsman, 15 February 1840, p. 3, and asks for further details.
Acknowledges TW’s letter supplying him with William Kemp’s address.
Thanks CD for information about Captain Tillard’s account of the volcanic eruption in the Azores in 1811.
Gives CD the results of some calculations for "dip" over different distances, as requested.
Informs correspondent that he wrote to William Walton all that he knew about the guanaco.
Present state of his health prevents his acceptance of invitation to attend the meeting of the Society.
The fourth number of part one of the Zoology has now been published. The Smith, Elder & Co. account is submitted.
Asks if he can bring his guests, J. C. L. and Mme [Simonde de] Sismondi and [Fanny] Allen, to CB’s parties.
Encloses a copy of his Glen Roy paper. Asks for more details of Kemp’s work on the terraces of the Eildon hills.
Has much pleasure "in accepting the honour of being proposed as a member of the Council of the Geographical Society".