Dear M^r Darwin

I leave this moment for Norway but write you these few lines at the request of Col Fox and some others of the council who wish me to ask if you could send a note if only a page to put in after the discussion of my paper as they say for the good of the journal—since the ethnological wants all the help it can from great names—¹ You have now I suppose had the proofs of the entire paper as it is some days since I corrected the last proofsheets— the paper is over 100 pages and there are 7 plates, 3 of indians—but these are not finished yet by the lithographer   I hope you will do this—as you know that you are really the cause of the paper appearing at all—for I do not pretend to be sufficiently strong on Ethnological matters as to rush into print had you not backed me on— I send you a copy of the sermon I gave some Sundays ago on Volcanos & hope it may interest you²

The Secretary—M^r Rudler³ Royal School of Mines—Jermyn Street will do all you wish if you write during my absence in Norway, I shall be away until the 20 August—

Believe me my dear Sir | Yours very truly | David Forbes

I shall not be offended if you “pitch into” me well