CD would like to call on JDH.
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CD would like to call on JDH.
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)].
Gives further details on peculiar Laburnum.
Can JDH lend him a full treatise on grafting?
Encloses another specimen of the "bilateral" Laburnum flower.
JDH’s aunt cannot find lodgings for CD.
Similarities between floras of Tierra del Fuego, Van Diemen’s Land, and New Zealand; does not feel migration sufficient explanation.
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 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.
Wants to go over remainder of species sketch when he sees JDH.
Urges JDH to go to Scotland.
Pleased JDH works on geographical distribution of Van Diemen’s Land flora.
Planning a visit to Kew. Wishes to meet H. C. Watson.
CD thanks JFR for remembering about the work he wanted to borrow [Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India].
Does JFR have Ambrose Blacklock, Treatise on sheep [1838]?
Will visit JDH on Friday. Coming by phaeton to save five changes of conveyance.
Discusses the buying and selling of certain railway shares.
Has letter from CD asking for copy of DM-H’s paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber" (1847), Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418]. RC still has suspicions and looks forward to further testing of Glen Roy mystery.