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Describes Infusoria in Rio Gallegos samples.
"Fluthgebiete" means estuary deposit.
Discusses dust samples from Malta. Asks for further samples.
Agrees with JDH about Forbes’s views.
Discusses A. Saint-Hilaire’s lectures and asks on what grounds botanists judge the relative "highness" of plants.
C. G. Ehrenberg wants specimen grasses from Ascension Island.
If JDH can send grasses CD will write to Ehrenberg enclosing them.
JDH recognises the existence of "altered states" of continental species in island floras. The botanists’ difficulty in determining a new species is no grounds for dismissing the important question of altered forms.
Will look for Ascension plants for Ehrenberg.
French Galapagos collections confirm JDH’s view that plants arrived from north.
Cannot agree with Forbes on North Atlantic flora.
Botanical definition of "highness" and "lowness" usually means complexity and simplicity.
Some plants, such as aquatic ones, are cleistogamous. Cannot see why they should not be.
Hugh Falconer gives no specific objections to Forbes’s views.
Botanical contrast between Cape of Good Hope and the rest of Africa is as strong as that between Australia and India.
Wishes CD would leave off snuff.
Sends a list of mammalian remains found in the Buenos Aires district and purchased by the British Museum.
Interested in sterility of alpine plants in lowland and sterility of some plants in cultivation.
Curious to see Galapagos paper.
Is pleased JDH will attend to polymorphism and also with the botanical relation, as stated by JDH, between Africa and Java.
Would welcome any information on impregnation in the bud.
CD’s suggestions for improving a paragraph by JDH.
On distribution of certain species and their variation relative to a central, typical form.
Writes concerning CD’s "geometrico-geological problem". Attempts to square some of CD’s observations with certain geometrical theories concerning geological elevation.
CD brought some plants in spirits from Tierra del Fuego. Did JDH see them?
Problems of explaining formation of coalfields. Comments on recent work on coal formation.
Responds to LH’s comments on South America.
Thinks it unsound to designate a geological epoch after man. Doubts people’s confidence in date of man’s introduction.
Criticises A. D. d’Orbigny’s theory of elevation of the Cordillera.
Lists sections of South America of special interest.
Discussion of CD’s geological problem, relating to elevation of laminated beds around a rising granitic ridge.
Returns letter from CD to J. L. Stokes [see 940 and 1030].
CD has been stomachy and sick, but not very uncomfortable.
Working on proofs [of South America] and cannot keep printer supplied with manuscript.
His thoughts of her, and news of the children who are at Down with him.
News of progress in remodelling. He and Etty [Henrietta] miss the rest of the family.
Was sick, but "two pills of opium righted me".
Variation in Mollusca.
Regrets he cannot visit JDH.
Has been talking with Lyell about coal, which he finds utterly perplexing.
Is delighted with the generalisations in latest numbers of Flora Antarctica.
Is slaving at South America – ¾ finished.
Has discovered geologists never read each other’s works – "the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness … Geology is at present very oral".