302 ^ETAT. 33. [1842, 



Later in the year (September) he writes to Fox about his 

 health, and also with reference to his plan of moving into the 

 country : - 



" I have steadily been gaining ground, and really believe 

 now I shall some day be quite strong. I write daily for a 

 couple of hours on my Coral volume, and take a little walk or 

 ride every day. I grow very tired in the evenings, and am 

 not able to go out at that time, or hardly to receive my 

 nearest relations ; but my life ceases to be burdensome now 

 that I can do something. We are taking steps to leave 

 London, and live about twenty miles from it on some railway."] 



1842. 



[The record of work includes his volume on * Coral Reefs,' * 

 the manuscript of which was at last sent to the printers in 

 January of this year, and the last proof corrected in May. He 

 thus writes of the work in his diary : 



" I commenced this work three years and seven months 

 ago. Out of this period about twenty months (besides work 

 during Beagle's voyage) has been spent on it, and besides 

 it, I have only compiled the Bird part of Zoology ; Appendix 

 to Journal, paper on Boulders, and corrected papers on Glen 

 Roy and earthquakes, reading on species, and rest all lost 

 by illness." 



In May and June he was at Shrewsbury and Maer, whence 

 he went on to make the little tour in Wales, of which he 

 spoke in his ' Recollections/ and of which the results were 

 published as " Notes on the effects produced by the ancient 

 glaciers of Caernarvonshire, and on the Boulders transported 

 by floating Ice." f 



* A notice of the Coral Reef f 'Philosophical Magazine,' 1842, 

 work appeared in the * Geograph. p. 352. 

 Soc. Journal,' xii. p. 115. 



