Difficulty of scheduling visit before JDH departs on Himalayan expedition.
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Difficulty of scheduling visit before JDH departs on Himalayan expedition.
Flattered by JBJ’s discussion of coral reefs [in Voyage of H.M.S. "Fly" 1 (1847): 347–8]. CD has always thought his Coral reefs "too bold and speculative", so he is gratified "when anyone who has had opportunities of observation does not give his verdict against it".
Discusses enclosed figures on elevation of terraces in several Scottish glens as surveyed by William Kemp and David Stevenson. Comments on Robert Chambers’ view of the terraces. Mentions a letter on the terraces, originally written for publication, which he has asked Robert Jameson [editor of the Edinburgh New Philos. J.] to destroy.
Thanks for a suite of male and female specimens of Lepidoptera. Lack of difference in size of wings surprises CD; the female’s being smaller than male’s in early growth is new to him. Will ask a friend in India for comparable facts.
On scheduling farewell meeting.
Continued problems in scheduling farewell meeting.
Accepts AC’s offer to conduct hybridisation experiments, and offers suggestions.
Sends book [Journal of researches, 2d ed. (1845)].
Has had two bad days with boils.
Is reading Last days of Pompeii [Edward Bulwer Lytton (1834)].
CD very ill; tries to arrange departure meeting with JDH.
CD’s guess at composition of Maldive flora.
"I had not heard before of Whench [Whewell?] having scolded you; I am rather glad of it …
What a grand number of novelties Hooker no doubt will bring home".
Now plans to come to Kew for an hour’s farewell if his stomach permits.
Congratulations on JDH’s Flora Antarctica [1847].
CD too unwell to see JDH. Encloses Emma’s farewell note.
Responding to GG’s offer to aid CD’s natural history researches on New Zealand, CD suggests that limestone caverns should be examined for fossils and that observations on the presence and range of erratic boulders in New Zealand would be very valuable.
Offers HM-E some specimens of Lernaea, a crustacean parasite on Balanus elongatus.
Mentions opinion of Harry Goodsir about a form CD believes to be the larva of Lernaea.
Discusses account. Glad that all is prosperous.
Seeks permission from the Trustees of the British Museum to borrow the cirripede specimens in the public collection. Explains his intention to produce a monograph of the Cirripedia.
Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from the British Museum.
Is searching for a tooth of Carcharias which he might have left with RO.
Asks JCR to collect cirripedes for him on forthcoming expedition [to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin].