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CD would like to call on JDH.

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Discusses accounts.

Cannot visit Alford [farm] this summer.

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Thanks for JS’s note concerning a proposal [concerning some aspect of education of poor children?] which CD has to decline because of his poor health and his work in Natural History.

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Will call on JDH on Thursday, if convenient.

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Has heard JDH does not return until tomorrow, so will not be able to see him at Kew but hopes to do so at Oxford meeting of BAAS.

Bunbury and Falconer strongly against idea of coal being submarine.

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Comments on correspondence between CL and Whewell [concerning university reform].

Criticises S. G. Morton’s "Hybridity in animals" [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 3 (1847): 39–50, 203–12].

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Encloses quasi-hybrid Laburnum.

Suggests a new view of symmetry of flowers.

Will discuss coal and species sketch at Oxford [BAAS meeting (1847)].

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Gives further details on peculiar Laburnum.

Can JDH lend him a full treatise on grafting?

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Encloses another specimen of the "bilateral" Laburnum flower.

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CD will take a room in Magdalen Hall at Oxford; thanks JDH’s aunt for trouble.

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JDH’s books have arrived.

Glad to hear of new plants from Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand.

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Must decline invitation for dinner; he is unwell.

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Congratulations on JDH’s engagement.

Sorry JDH is so determined on an expedition.

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Glad BS intends to visit England. Fears there will be few geologists in London in August. Would be truly glad to see BS at Down, but cannot offer much geological information respecting England.

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Regrets not seeing HD at Oxford meeting [of BAAS].

He may keep duplicates of parasitic insects from CD’s collection. Lyell has collected Pediculi for HD from Negroes in North America.

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Cannot come to Hitcham as he is anticipating a visit from Bernhard Studer of Bern.

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Wants to go over remainder of species sketch when he sees JDH.

Urges JDH to go to Scotland.

Pleased JDH works on geographical distribution of Van Diemen’s Land flora.

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Planning a visit to Kew. Wishes to meet H. C. Watson.

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Invites BS to visit Down. Advises him to call on Daniel Sharpe. Suggests he see the work of the Ordnance Survey in Wales.

Offers to lend him Murchison’s The Silurian system [3 vols. (1839)].

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CD thanks JFR for remembering about the work he wanted to borrow [Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India].

Does JFR have Ambrose Blacklock, Treatise on sheep [1838]?