CD left this letter with Edward Lumb to be forwarded with the cargo of bones to which it refers. The letter was not despatched until 2 May 1834, when Lumb wrote to Henslow telling him that a case of specimens with part of the head of a ‘Megatherium’ was being forwarded to him. That shipment, however, was not the one referred to in this letter, but another, containing a specimen found later in 1833. From Lumb’s letter of 8 May 1834, it appears that the ‘Spanish friend’ is ‘M^r Hooker’. The cargo of bones has not been traced, though Lumb expected it to arrive soon after 2 May 1834.