So I want to know whether you will speak for me most strongly for Barrande.
You know better than I do his admirable labours on the development of trilobites, and his most important work on his Lower or Primordial Zone.
I enclose an old note of Lyell's to show what he thinks.

With respect to Dana, whom I also proposed, you know well his merits.

I can speak most highly of his classificatory work on crustacea and his Geographical Distribution.

His Volcanic Geology is admirable, and he has done much good work on coral reefs.
If you attend, do not answer this; but if you cannot be at the Council, please inform me, and I suppose I must, if I can, attend.
Thank you for your abstract of your lecture at the Royal Institution, which interested me much, and rather grieved me, for I had hoped things had been in a slight degree otherwise.

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