Darwin Correspondence Project

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My dear Darwin

I spoke separately yesterday to Warburton, Fitton & Greenough before they entered into Committee on the affairs of the Nation or G.S. as to a Government Grant for publication & said all you had suggested— The idea was new & struck them as leaving us more independent than any other scheme— So your coming up to town you see has done some good—

I shall read a paper on erect N. Scotia trees next meeting—

Capt Halstead RN—has returned from surveying Ramree & islands & coast ceded by Burmese— He tells me the shores are rising everywhere —oyster beds of recent species corals & old beaches inland & the same all along the E. side of Bay of Bengall where mud volcanos—for several 100 miles all the way he believes from Sumatra to Barren Isld—

<half page of text missing > making— So now I am unpacking all my U.S. silurian carbonifs Devonian &c— Phillips looked over 8 drawers of beds below coal in Pensylva— the result as usual the species different but a complete representation of forms in correspondg formations