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Is glad addressee’s lectures are going well.

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A letter of reference for Syms Covington.

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Delighted by RO’s discussion in this sheet. RO should return revises to printer and get remaining ones.

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Likes WP’s book [Buenos Ayres and the province of La Plata (1838)]. Thinks it will interest all "who care for graver things than what the traveller eats and says to the Señoritas".

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Asks permission to bring Fanny Allen to CB’s party.

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Will send JP a map as requested. Asks for a ticket to one of JP’s lectures.

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Regrets he cannot accept invitation. "My health will not at present stand going out in the evenings."

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Is so unwell today that he is unable to come [to CB’s party].

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Suggests the names of two bird-preservers for JMH’s friend.

In reference to an earlier letter, replies: "As for Birds of Paradise from the West Indies, tell that to the marines, as we used to say on board the Beagle".

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Sends observations he made on Fungia during Beagle voyage. Asks CS to make corrections in style or names of parts as he sees fit.

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Asks to be allowed to bring his sister to CB’s party "that she may see the World".

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Discusses his Glen Roy paper [(1839), Collected papers 1: 87–137], which he is sending to CL.

Remarks on Charles MacLaren’s treatment of alluvium. Comments on alluvial action in Lochaber.

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Informs him of J. B. Jukes’s plans concerning the Newfoundland survey post.

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Hopes Richard Owen will have time to do CD’s shells in spirits.

Doubts WJB’s suggestion that moles may play a part in formation of mould.

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Asks what generic and subgeneric name John Gould has given to the goatsuckers of the U. S. [for Birds].

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Submits the account of Smith, Elder & Co. for the third number of part two and second number of part three of the Zoology.

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Asks WW to alter, before printing, the passages in WW’s Presidential Address to the Geological Society [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1839): 93] which pointedly allude to the delay in publication of CD’s Beagle journal; they might annoy FitzRoy, who, as Captain, has a right to first use of the papers of all officers on board.

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Returns Whewell’s presidential address to the Geological Society of London (Whewell 1839), and suggests that ‘rules’ be changed to ‘customs’.

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Has finished earthquake paper ["Volcanic phenomena in South America" (1840), Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Gives instructions about a woodcut. There should be an outline map.

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Formal request for F. Lutké’s charts of the Caroline Islands and any charts by Beechey of the Lagoon Islands [Ellice Islands] that the Society might possess.