Dear Sir

I have just received your letter & lose no time in sending off my notes.¹ They appear rather more bulky than they really are.— I hope you will be so good as to take the trouble to introduce them, as I am sure they will render the work more worthy of perusal.— Tomorrow I will write about the wood cuts & copper plate.— Please to return them, when used addressed to me, to the “care of E. Darwin Esq^re. 43 Grt. Marlborough St London.”— The jack or jaca tree, is the Artocarpus integrifolia. The organism described at p. 16 belongs in the common opinion to the Vegetable Kingdom & comes near to or under the Confervæ.—

I hope the enclosed bundle of paper will not put you to much expence in Postage, but you forgot to answer my question on that point.—

I fear there is little chance of my seeing L^d Derby,² but I certainly will bear your claims in mind, sh^d, I ever hear of any fitting opportunity for the exercise of your talents & knowledge in travelling.³

Believe me dear Sir | in Haste yours very faithfully | C. Darwin