Describes his Highland tour.
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Describes his Highland tour.
Discusses domestic affairs and gives some advice on manners.
Flora of New Zealand.
Reconsidering variability of insular species.
Becoming convinced of the probability that the southern flora is a fragmentary one – all that remains of a great southern continent.
His plans to marry.
Sends cirripede specimens for Ipswich Museum.
Asks how much a village fireworks display would cost.
Comments on the need in education for good habits of expression and accurate observation instead of making "wretched Latin verses".
Discusses the methods for adulteration of alcoholic drinks, including porter, ales and spirits. States that adulteration is far less harmful than the public imagine.
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.