160 THE ANTARCTIC VOYAGE : PERSONAL 



You must not work too hard at your plants and Library ; 

 rather get on in the gardens, which is more healthy, and in 

 which I shall not at first be the slightest assistance to you, 

 from downright ignorance ; I will get up as much back 

 work as you like in the books and Herbarium. 



The double link of affection and common intellectual 

 interest runs through all the letters to his father, and may be 

 noted even in money matters. He has no use for his double 

 pay on the voyage ; and his father's valuable publications, the 

 * Icones Plantarum ' and the ' Journal of Botany,' are entirely 

 unremunerative. Let him use the money for these ; popularise 

 the Journal by portraits of living botanists. If he will not let 

 Joseph pay for the books sent out to him, at least he must 

 accept something for the keep of his pet dog. 



You must not refuse to make use of my bills for all such 

 purposes [e.g. looking after dog ' Skye,' which was not allowed 

 to accompany its master to the Antarctic. The Erebus, 

 he tells his sister, only carried some fowls for colonising 

 purposes and two cats. Therefore ' Love me, love my 

 dog '], the money is no use to me. I have enough to spend 

 and to waste, for one cannot help wasting when port is so 

 seldom seen ; as sure as a bill is cashed it all goes, and they 

 are sent home instead to be made use of and not buried in 

 a bank. You may be sure I should not scruple to draw on 

 your liberality were I to be extravagant or foolish, and my 

 outfit cost you a great deal more than it should have done 

 had I been judicious or in any place but Chatham, and you 

 should not therefore scruple to use the bills, especially in 

 any way of forwarding your works. You have too many 

 calls on your purse to attend to many things which strike 

 others ; for instance, I would far rather pay for a new 

 plate than see such a rotten lithograph of Richard l after 

 the excellent ones of Cunningham and Swartz. 



Do not let the Journal die for want of funds so long as 

 I have a bill to send home. I have no work that pleases 

 me so much. 



1 Achille Richard (1794-1859), doctor and botanist, Professor in the Medical 

 School of Paris from 1831. Besides various monographs and studies in medical 

 botany, he wrote Nouveaux Elements de botanigue et de physiologic, 1819, and 

 with Lesson described the botany of D'Urville's voyage. 



