CD too ill to write.
He thanks Appleton for most beautiful work of natural history he has ever seen.
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CD too ill to write.
He thanks Appleton for most beautiful work of natural history he has ever seen.
Has been ill, which accounts for the delay in answering his letter. Has applied for the position at Addiscombe. Remarks concerning volcanoes and his own and JH's queries regarding them.
M. J. Berkeley wrote London Review & Wkly J. Polit. article.
CD is "out of sight the best physiological observer and experimenter that Botany ever saw".
Laments how much he [JDH] missed when doing the Listera ["Functions and structure of the rostellum of Listera ovata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 144 (1854): 259–64].
Illness of wife and father.
"More plants from Fernando Po and more European".
Has seen Francis Walker, who has identified CD’s two Hymenoptera species ["caught in Musk Orchis" – CD note].