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not get 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 D irector- 

 General of the Geological Survey. 



t 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. JFly t 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. 



J Searles Valentine Wood, born 

 Feb. 14, 1798, died 1880. Chiefly 

 known for his work on the Mollusca 

 of the ' Crag.' 



