Prefers to send entire £50,000 to Cape in gold coins. Will authorize JH next week to obtain another £20,000 in gold coin from Bank [of England] for other shipments.
Prefers to send entire £50,000 to Cape in gold coins. Will authorize JH next week to obtain another £20,000 in gold coin from Bank [of England] for other shipments.
Gratified by JDD’s opinion of his work.
Discusses problem of homologies of cirripede larva in first stage and reasons for his view.
JDD’s information on corals was just what CD needed.
Would like specimen of blind cave rat described by B. Silliman [Jr] ["On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 11 (1851): 336] for Waterhouse to examine.
Discusses origin of Australian valleys; he disagrees with JDD’s river-erosion hypothesis.
Forwards a letter to JH from Thomas Maclear, and FB comments on several accidents that have occurred at the Cape.
Regarding the absence of his own name from the candidates list for the R.S.L.; thinks there is a clique working against him.
Illness has prevented an earlier reply thanking him for his introduction to the Governor of Malta. Expects good results in Malta.
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