ARW thanks CR for the offer of loan of periodicals with articles on erosion. James Geikie has sent a brief reply to Aeppli. Percy Kendall has promised photographs illustrating glacial phenomena.

ARW returns the papers C. R. lent him. The paper on Spitzbergen was very instructive, to do with the rapid motion of glaciers and occurrence of ?re-eddies which Bonney denies. The paper on Skye is more puzzling. PS Owing to terrible drought, April-August, none of the Acer seeds came up, nor seeds of Cornus nuttallii.

Because the fields and heath ?behind the house have been sold for building, they are thinking of finding a new home and are searching for places. ARW is going to see the Old Manor House at Aston Tirrold.

ARW thanks C. R. for abstracts on "hanging valleys". ARW mentions his theory of seed migration through the air and is looking for evidence. Enquires if C. R. has geological survey work in Cornwall, or has he retired. ARW is building a house at Broadstone "on a very pretty bit of land".

Thanks for congratulations. Glad to hear he is coming to this part of the world again.

ARW has been reading Mrs Reid's paper in the ?Linnean Society Journal about disintegrating peat. ARW has some brought from Somersetshire and Ireland. Asks for reference in recent book to a summary of present knowledge of Palaeontology, like the "Table of British Fossils" at the end of Lyell's Students Elements.

ARW has read CR's paper on British plants and the glacial period and discusses that subject, asking CR to read ARW's description of Flora of the Azores in Island Life again, and noting the argument about species which have been so derived since the glacial period. Temperature is mentioned as one of many factors; ARW notes that many species could have lived since the Pliocene. ARW suffers from eczema and rheumatism and cannot leave home.

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