But I will enclose for you this one page of my rough journal.
LETTER 314.

TO J.D.HOOKER.

Down, March 31st (1844).
I have been a shameful time in returning your documents, but I have been very busy scientifically, and unscientifically in planting.

I have been exceedingly interested in the details about the Galapagos Islands.
I need not say that I collected blindly, and did not attempt to make complete series, but just took everything in flower blindly.

The flora of the summits and bases of the islands appear wholly different; it may aid you in observing whether the different islands have representative species filling the same places in the economy of nature, to know that I collected plants from the lower and dry region in all the islands, i.e., in the Chatham, Charles, James, and Albemarle (the least on the latter); and that I was able to ascend into the high and damp region only in James and Charles Islands; and in the former I think I got every plant then in flower.