9/183 Beaufort wrote to Cambridge, and I volunteered. Fitz-Roy never persuaded me to give up the voyage on account of sickness, nor did I ever think of doing so, though I suffered considerably; but I do not believe it was the cause of my subsequent ill-health, which has lost me so many years, and therefore I should not think the sea-sickness was worth notice. It would save you trouble to forward this with my kindest remembrances to Falconer. The following letter was the beginning of a correspondence with Mr.B.D.Walsh, whom C.V.Riley describes as "one of the ablest and most thorough entomologists of our time.") LETTER 176. |