My dear Sir

I require, (as I before mentioned to you) four or five woodcuts to illustrate points in Introduction on nomenclature,¹ & have got M^r Sowerby to make the drawings on wood, as far more accurate than having them subsequently copied.— May I direct him to get them cut; if they are sent to some stranger, I do not know how the expence of the drawing on wood & the cutting is to be proportioned.—

I see most authors give the short Specific Description in English, one in Latin alone, & M^r S. Wood in Latin & English;² I thought of following the latter; do you approve? I think the Descriptions sh^d be anyhow in Latin, & I can give the English also if approved of.—³

Will you send me one line with orders about my woodcuts., & your opinion on the subject of Latin & English.

Your’s very sincerely | C. Darwin

What a sad pity it is that you stitch your annual parts in one vol. for the year— What a poor show it makes! & how inconvenient to those who never (as I for one never do) bind their books.—⁴