Down, Thursday [January 11th, 1844].
My dear Sir I must write to thank you for your last letter, and to tell you how much all your views and facts interest me.

I must be allowed to put my own interpretation on what you say of "not being a good arranger of extended views"-- which is, that you do not indulge in the loose speculations so easily started by every smatterer and wandering collector.

I look at a strong tendency to generalise as an entire evil.
What you say of Mr.Brown is humiliating; I had suspected it, but would not allow myself to believe in such heresy.

Fitz-Roy gave him a rap in his preface (13/1.

In the preface to the "Surveying Voyages of the 'Adventure' and the 'Beagle,' 1826-30, forming Volume I of the work, which includes the later voyage of the "Beagle," Captain Fitz-Roy wrote (March, 1839): "Captain King took great pains in forming and preserving a botanical collection, aided by a person embarked solely for that purpose.