With respect to the December letter, I am very glad to hear the four casks arrived safe; since which time you have received another cargo, with the bird skins about which you did not understand me.

Have any of the B.Ayrean seeds produced plants?
From the Falklands I acknowledged a box and letter from you; with the letter were a few seeds from Patagonia.

At present I have specimens enough to make a heavy cargo, but shall wait as much longer as possible, because opportunities are not now so good as before.

I have just got scent of some fossil bones of a MAMMOTH; what they may be I do not know, but if gold or galloping will get them they shall be mine.

You tell me you like hearing how I am going on and what doing, and you well may imagine how much I enjoy speaking to any one upon subjects which I am always thinking about, but never have any one to talk to [about].