My dear Hooker

I have nothing particular to say, but the spirit moves me to write to you to say how much I enjoyed your visit & all our raging discussions.— I somehow feel that I had no talk with you individually & this I much regret, as I wanted to hear about your future plans & to talk over many things: you really must pay us a Sunday visit early in the Spring & you shall come as late as you like on Saturday.— I have finished all the numbers, of the A. F. with undiminished pleasure.² I suspect p. 241 (4 lines from bottom) there is false print of S. “Australis” for pinnatifida???—³ I have been pleased to observe how many species my Fuegian collection contains: I think you ought somewhere to explain where C. Negro & Elizabeth islands are, as few would be able to find out without the best charts.

I presume you can trust Capt. Kings localities; I ask, because in his zoological collection, the localities have been infamously mingled; African species marked St of Magellan!

After you were gone, Wedgwood⁴ was suggesting, that you might not unlikely get a collection made on summit of Fernando Po, through Jameson,⁵ the great African merchants. They are so liberal, that it really does not seem improbable, if the importance of the object were explained to them that they w^d request some surgeon or other person to make the attempt. I want to know, whether any insects were collected on Kerguelen’s Land: if so how interesting it w^d be to compare them with those from Fuegia: Waterhouse w^d. be the man for the comparison. Are there any land-birds there?— By the way can you inform me, how many numbers of the Antarctic Zoology have come out;⁶ as Gray, in his own & Richardson’s name was so magnificent as to present me with the few first numbers.

How I should like such another reunion, as we had the other Sunday; for my own part, I learn more in those discussions than in ten times over the number of hours readings.

Ever my dear Hooker | Yours truly | C. Darwin