Will be in London tomorrow and will try to pop over to Kew.
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Will be in London tomorrow and will try to pop over to Kew.
Many thanks for JDH’s beautiful cirripede drawing. Questions on JDH’s observations.
Observations on barnacles.
Would like to meet JDH in London.
Will JDH be in London?
Cirripede observations.
Proposes to visit Kew.
Will come to Kew on Friday.
CD’s visit to Kew.
Has read JDH’s paper ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 116–233] and thinks it the best essay on geographical distribution he has ever met with. Comments on the paper.
Hopes JDH can come to stay in January.
Thanks for the corallines.
Mention of JDH’s capital speech.
Can JDH come on 16 Jan? CD will ask the "old set" to come and also the Lyells.
Cirripede observations.
Would like to hear what JDH has to say about his species sketch.
Asks JDH not to think of looking at his species sketch until he has leisure.
Can JDH come to 7 Park St. on Wednesday?
Illness has delayed his departure. Will try to call on JDH on Thursday.
Thanks for JDH’s notes on species sketch. Proposes to drive to Kew to discuss them with him.
Health permitting, proposes to visit Kew on Friday.
Health bad, cannot get to Kew.
Will send Nulliporae to [L. A.?] Reeve.
JDH’s proposed India trip.
Will sorely miss discussions with JDH on species theory.
CD is getting on wretchedly with cirripedes.
[Copy made by CD’s amanuensis.] Discusses the rarity of intermediate forms.
Thanks for H. C. Watson’s interesting letter. Disagrees with him on intermediate varieties.
CD has read latest numbers of JDH’s The botany of the Antarctic voyage [pt I, Flora Antarctica (1844–7)]; notes several sentences against "us Transmutationists".