Asks for volumes of F. W. Beechey’s work [Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Bering Strait (1831)] and Nautical magazine and an order on [John] Arrowsmith for atlas of Dumont d’Urville’s Voyage in the "Astrolabe".
Formal request for F. Lutké’s charts of the Caroline Islands and any charts by Beechey of the Lagoon Islands [Ellice Islands] that the Society might possess.
Returns proof-sheets of an article he has reviewed for the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. He will find it useful when he comes to describe the Cordilleras of Chile.
Returns proofs of J. O. French’s article ["Account of the province of La Rioja: S. America", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 9 (1839): 381–406].
Gratified by Humboldt’s praise of Journal of researches [J. R. Geogr. Soc. 9 (1839): 502].
CD thinks report of a rock imbedded in an iceberg is remarkable; wants to write a note for the [Journal] about it. Asks for location of the sighting and a chart of the Antarctic Sea. [See "Rock seen on an iceberg", Collected papers 1: 137–9.]
Has much pleasure "in accepting the honour of being proposed as a member of the Council of the Geographical Society".
George Suttor’s paper not worthy of publication in the Journal of the society. It contains no new facts worth insertion.
Discusses a paper on the Rio Negro.
Urgently needs a Spanish map of the Cordilleras of central Chile near St Jago [Santiago].
Asks for whatever numbers, since 1845, of the Journal [of the Royal Geographical Society] he, as a Fellow, is entitled to receive gratis.
Asks for catalogue and latest number of the Journal [of the Royal Geographical Society].
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Requests that proofs of his paper ['On a New Projection of the Sphere'] be sent to him at 37 Tavistock Place.
Asks that the diagrams alluded to be printed with JH's paper ['On a New Projection of the Sphere'].
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