Mr.Cresy was, we believe, an architect: his friendship with Mr.
Darwin dates from the settlement at Down.) Down [after 1847].
Although I have never particularly attended to the points in dispute between Dr.( Richard) King and the other Arctic gentlemen, yet I have carefully read all the articles in the "Athenaeum," and took from them much the same impression as you convey in your letter, for which I thank you.

I believe that old sinner, Sir J.Barrow (24/3.

Sir John Barrow, (1764-1848): Secretary to the Admiralty.

has been at the bottom of all the money wasted over the naval expeditions.

So strongly have I felt on this subject, that, when I was appointed on a committee for Nat.