Ordered a barrel of oysters for Smith and recovering from gout caused by the cold weather. Praises new volume of "Linnean Transactions": enjoys the publication of whole genus monographs, as with [David] Don's [(1799-1841), botanist] 'Saxifraga' paper, but wishes the Latin had been checked; thinks [Francis Hamilton's] "Commentary on Hortus Malabaricus" will prove very useful to "science at large"; thinks Sir Thomas Raffles' [(1781-1826), founder of Singapore] "descriptive catalogue" needed plates.

The Bishop of Peterborough [Herbert Marsh (1757-1839)] wrote introducing Dr Swaenchen, a German cryptogamist, but he has not called yet. [Aylmer Bourke] Lambert overjoyed at his museum being named "Lambertian Museum".

Requests that HS look for a shipment of a clock and send it on to J. J. Littrow, and inform the maker in London, Robert Molyneux, that HS has done this. JH sends along John Pond's catalogue of star position differences.

Has just heard that the ship carrying JL's clock arrived at Hamburg on the 5th. Gives the name of the Bank to which payment is to be made. Has used his Theory of Comets in a paper.