I have devoted the whole of this week to working and writing out the flora question, for I now feel strong enough to give my promised evening lecture on it at the Royal Institution on Friday, and, moreover, wish to get it in printable form for the Reports of our Survey.
Therefore at no time can I receive or answer objections with more benefit than now.

From the hurry and pressure which unfortunately attend all my movements and doings I rarely have time to spare, in preparing for publication, to do more than give brief and unsatisfactory abstracts, which I fear are often extremely obscure.
Now for your objections--which have sprung out of my own obscurities.
I do not argue in a circle about the Irish case, but treat the botanical evidence of connection and the geological as distinct.

The former only I urged at Cambridge; the latter I have not yet publicly maintained.
My Cambridge argument (20/2.

"On the Distribution of Endemic Plants," by E.Forbes, "Brit.

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