The Binder "by some wonderful Blunder" has bound the enclosed in all of CD’s copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1]. He requests that it be pulled out. It may belong to W. A. Leighton’s volume [Lichens (1851)].
The Binder "by some wonderful Blunder" has bound the enclosed in all of CD’s copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1]. He requests that it be pulled out. It may belong to W. A. Leighton’s volume [Lichens (1851)].
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Discusses advice given to JSH on nux vomica and advice given to Bowerbank by JSH on leech cocoons. Compliments Henslow on his comparative kindness. Sends waste prints for JSH and the Ipswich Museum.
Discusses campaign to secure a comfortable position with a government pension for an associate, possibly Robert Edmond Grant.
He has been very busy since the sudden death of his employer shortly before his own marriage.
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Is glad WED has made a good beginning [at Rugby?].
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Questions on variation in nature: taxa varying in one region but not another. Variation between vs within species. Rarity of variation in important organs within a species. G. R. Waterhouse’s views on variation in highly developed organs, which CD relates to variation in rudimentary organs.
Asks for cases of obligate self-fertilising plants.
[CD annotation proposes using the Steudel Nomenclator botanicus (1821–4) to determine if variable species occur in genera with many species.]
Describes more geological rambles in the Lammermuirs.
Thanks JSH for invitation to visit but cannot say if able to do so. Asks for JSH to send him any fungi of interest. Invites JSH to visit him at Elmhurst, near Batheaston, and comments that Leonard Jenyns also lives in the area.
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