My dear Sir

I thank you warmly for your extremely kind letter¹ & for your information about the Bald-Pate, which is quite sufficient.² When we meet I shall beg to hear the actual coo!

I will by this very post write to M^r Hill,³ & will venture to use your name as an introduction, which I am sure will avail me much; so you need take no trouble on subject, as using your name will be all that I should require.—

With very sincere thanks | Yours truly | C. Darwin

I am very anxious to get all cases of transport of plants or animals to distant islands.— I have been trying the effects of salt-water on the vitality of seeds—their powers of floatation—whether earth sticks to birds feet or base of beak, & I am experimenting whether small seeds are ever enclosed in such earth, &c &.—. Can you remember any facts.— But of all cases whatever, the means of transport, (& such I much think exist) of Land Mollusca utterly puzzle me most.⁴ I sh^d. be very grateful for any light.—