160 THE ANTAKCTIC VOYAGE : PEKSONAL 
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 jirst be the slightest assistance to you, 
from dowmight 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,' w^hich 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 Eichard ^ 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 Nonvcanx Elements de botanigue et de 'physiologic, 1819, and 
with Lesson described the botany of D'Urvillc's voyage. 
