Pray be careful to observe, if I ever mark the individual islands of the Galapagos Islands, for the reasons you will see in my "Journal." Menzies and Cumming were there, and there are some plants (I think Mr.Bentham told me) at the Horticultural Society and at the British Museum.

I believe I collected no plants at Ascension, thinking it well-known.
Is not the similarity of plants of Kerguelen Land and southern S.
America very curious?
Is there any instance in the northern hemisphere of plants being similar at such great distances?
With thanks for your letter and for your having undertaken my small collection of plants, Believe me, my dear Sir, Yours very truly, C.DARWIN.
Do remember my prayer, and write as well for botanical ignoramuses as for great botanists.

There is a paper of Carmichael (313/3.
"Some Account of the Island of Tristan da Cunha and of its Natural Productions."-- "Linn.

Soc.

Trans." XII., 1818, page 483.) on Tristan d'Acunha, which from the want of general remarks and comparison, I found [torn out] to me a dead letter .-- I presume you will include this island in your views of the southern hemisphere.
P.S .-- I have been looking at my poor miserable attempt at botanical-landscape-remarks, and I see that I state that the species of beech which is least common in T.del Fuego is common in the forest of Central Chiloe.