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not cret him to write on Distribution. I have found his 

 works very unfruitful in every respect. 



[Here follows the memorandum referred to :] 



[The following letter is of interest in connection with the 

 mention of Mr. Bentham in the last letter :] 



G. Bentham to Francis Darwin, 



25 Wilton Place, S.W., 



May 30th, 1882. 



My DEAR Sir. In compliance with your note which I 

 received last night, I send herewith the letters I have from 

 your father. I should have done so on seeing the general 

 request published in the papers, but that I did not think 

 there were any among them which could be of any use to 

 you. Highly flattered as I was by the kind and friendly 

 notice with which Mr. Darwin occasionally honoured me, I 



* Andrew Ramsay, late Director- 

 General of the Geological Survey. 



f Joseph Beete Jukes, M.A., 

 F.R.S., born 181 1, died 1869. He 

 was educated at Cambridge, and 

 from 1842 to 1846 he acted as 

 naturalist to H.M.S. Fly, on an 

 exploring expedition in Australia 

 and New Guinea. He was after- 



wards appointed Director of the 

 Geological Survey of Ireland. He 

 was the author of many papers, 

 and of more than one good hand- 

 book of geology. 



% Searles Valentine Wood, born 

 Feb. 14, 1798, died 1880. Chiefly 

 known for his work on the Mollusca 

 of the ' Crag.' 



