CD defends his position on submarine coal formation and coal-plants against JDH’s strong objections.
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CD defends his position on submarine coal formation and coal-plants against JDH’s strong objections.
Thinks JDH should arrange his facts against the aquatic formation of coal.
CD would like to call on JDH.
Thanks for JS’s note concerning a proposal [concerning some aspect of education of poor children?] which CD has to decline because of his poor health and his work in Natural History.
Discusses accounts.
Cannot visit Alford [farm] this summer.
Will call on JDH on Thursday, if convenient.
Has heard JDH does not return until tomorrow, so will not be able to see him at Kew but hopes to do so at Oxford meeting of BAAS.
Bunbury and Falconer strongly against idea of coal being submarine.
Encloses quasi-hybrid Laburnum.
Suggests a new view of symmetry of flowers.
Will discuss coal and species sketch at Oxford [BAAS meeting (1847)].
Comments on correspondence between CL and Whewell [concerning university reform].
Criticises S. G. Morton’s "Hybridity in animals" [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 3 (1847): 39–50, 203–12].
Gives further details on peculiar Laburnum.
Can JDH lend him a full treatise on grafting?
Encloses another specimen of the "bilateral" Laburnum flower.
CD will take a room in Magdalen Hall at Oxford; thanks JDH’s aunt for trouble.
JDH’s books have arrived.
Glad to hear of new plants from Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand.
Wants JW’s permission to carry out certain investments.
Must decline invitation for dinner; he is unwell.
Glad BS intends to visit England. Fears there will be few geologists in London in August. Would be truly glad to see BS at Down, but cannot offer much geological information respecting England.
Must look after his wife, so is unable to come to visit.
Congratulations on JDH’s engagement.
Sorry JDH is so determined on an expedition.
Regrets not seeing HD at Oxford meeting [of BAAS].
He may keep duplicates of parasitic insects from CD’s collection. Lyell has collected Pediculi for HD from Negroes in North America.
Cannot come to Hitcham as he is anticipating a visit from Bernhard Studer of Bern.