Encloses the transfer, signed and witnessed.
Encloses the transfer, signed and witnessed.
Volcanic activity of Mt Kilauea as described by Dana [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 9 (1850): 347–64]. Discusses the mechanics of volcanic eruption. Disputes view of William Hopkins that simultaneous action by volcanoes of different heights must come from separate lava sources. Notes relationship of continental elevation to volcanic action.
Thanks AH for assistance. Compares Alcippe to South American boring cirripedes.
Would like to meet JSH in London.
Thanks for specimens of cirripedes attached to rocks, which show no boring. CD hopes to see some on limestone.
Encourages CSB to do research on the complemental males of Scalpellum vulgare.
Discusses geological foliation and cleavage. Urges ACR to read CD’s remarks on subject in his South America before ACR publishes his paper ["On the lower Palaeozoic rocks", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 9 (1853): 161–79].
Has changed his bank to Union Bank, Charing Cross Branch.
Offers to send Ascidia specimens of Beagle voyage. Describes some of them.
Hopes THH will review his book [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1] which has been published for a year with no notice taken of it except briefly by Dana.
Discusses Limulus-like larva. "I have become a man of one idea.– cirripedes morning & night."
Discusses the development and morphology of Verruca.
Would be proud to receive memoir ["Les crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)].
Acknowledges the receipt of some securities.
Solicits information about the kind of syphon required to convey water from a proposed large water tank to existing smaller ones.
Discusses JAHdeB’s drawing of a Verruca.
Describes meeting of Geological Society [1 June 1853].
Mentions his criticism of Murchison’s lecture on flints.
Describes Robert Chambers’ "On the glacial phenomena in Scotland" [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 54 (1853): 229–82].
Mentions controversial election of members to the Royal Society.
Discusses account.
Thanks for fossil cirripede specimens. Comments on various specimens.
Will quote CSB on discovery of Alcippe lampas.
Hopes CSB continues to look for Verruca on limestone.
Discusses use of CSB’s larvae illustrations [for Living Cirripedia].
Discusses Rugby and education in general. The enormous proportion of time spent on classics checks interest "in anything in which reasoning & observation comes into play".
Expresses shock and sympathy on learning of the deaths in WDF’s house.
Discusses valves in Scalpellum. Comments on JAHdeB’s research on cirripedes.
Asks JM to forward letter [1525] to Francis Galton "the author of the very interesting volume" Murray recently published.
FG’s volume on his African expedition [Narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa (1853)] stimulates CD to express his admiration and to hope their acquaintance can be renewed.
Describes his health and life at Down.