To J. D. Hooker   [4 August 1847]

Down Farnborough Kent

Wednesday

My dear Hooker

I shall be delighted to come on or about the 10th as I may hear to meet Henslow, if I possibly can. The cause of doubt consists in my having asked Prof. Studer of Berne to come here in the early part of the month & I do not exactly know when that will be.— I must go over the remainder of my species sketch with you then.— I did not go to Cambridge.—1

I am extremely glad to hear so good an account of your sister: the Scotch scheme, must be an unusually tempting one; be idle & enjoy yourself & go, is my advice

Ever yours | in Haste | C. Darwin

It is real good news that you are at work on geograph. distrib of V. Diemen’s land.—2

1
See letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 July [1847], for CD’s intention to vote in the Cambridge University parliamentary elections.
2
Hooker was compiling a ‘Florae Tasmaniæ Spicilegium’ for the London Journal of Botany, published in three parts in the latter half of 1847 (J. D. Hooker 1847).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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