i860.] 



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[The following letter is of interest in connection with the 

 mention of Mr. Bentham in the last letter :] 



G. Bentham to Francis Darwifi. 



25 Wilton Place, S. W., 



May 30th, 18S2. 



My dear Sir, — In compliance with your note which I re- 

 ceived 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 was never admitted 

 into his intimacy, and he therefore never made any com- 

 munications to me in relation to his views and labours. I 

 have been throughout one of his most sincere admirers, and 



* Andrew Ramsay, late Director-General of the Geological Survey. 



f Joseph Beete Jukes, M. A., F.R. S., born 1811, 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 afterwards 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. * 



X Searles Valentine Wood, born Feb. 14, 1798, died 1880. Chiefly 

 known for his work on the Mollusca of the ' Crag.' 



