My dear Henslow

Will you have the kindness to give a message to Prof. Miller from me, & another to L. Jenyns.— I write to you because I do not want to trouble either of them with a letter for a single word,—and you will probably soon see them & give it vivâ voce.— I left with Miller, last winter some geological specimens.— I should be very much obliged if he would make soon a list of the numbers (specifying the colour of the paper) for otherwise I might be hunting in vain for hours.¹ I ought at the time to have made a list, but neglected doing so. When I know which he has got, I will ask him to tell me something about those which I may want, & which he had the kindness to say he would do.—

My message to L. Jenyns, is simply that I expect T. Eyton to pay me a visit before long, when he comes up to town, & that the fish had better be sent soon by waggon to 36 Great Marlborough St.—²

Pray tell Leonard, that my government work is going on smoothly & I hope will be prosperous.— He will see in the prospectus his name attached to the fish. I set my shoulder to the work with a good heart.— I am very much better than I was during the last month before my Shrewsbury visit— I fear the geology will take me a great deal of time, I was looking over one set of notes, & the quantity I found I had to read, for that one place was frightful— If I live till I am eighty years old I shall not cease to marvel at finding myself an author: in the summer, before I started, if anyone had told me I should have been an angel by this time, I should have thought it an equal improbability. This marvellous transformation is all owing to you.—

I am sorry to find, that a good many errata are left in the part of my volume, which is printed: During my absence M^r Colburn employed some goose to revise, & he has multiplied, instead of diminishing my oversights:³ but for all that, the smooth paper and clear type has a charming appearance, and I sat the other evening gazing in silent admiration at the first page of my own volume, when I received it from the printers!

Good bye My dear Henslow.—pray remember me to M^rs Henslow and all your family, by whom I shall be quite forgotten, if I do not pay Cambridge a visit before very long, but when that is to be, “Quien sabe?” as the Spaniard says | C. Darwin Saturday