CD too unwell to read. JS should not send Primula paper MS until CD returns home.

JS’s MS [of Primula paper] arrived, but CD is too ill to read it.

CD has sent JS’s paper on orchid sterility to Botanische Zeitung and to Hooker.

Has read JS’s paper [MS of "Observations on the functions and structure of the reproductive organs in the Primulaceae", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 78–126] which has interested him greatly. Will communicate it to the Linnean Society if JS carries out a few corrections.

Would like to hear about his Verbascum and Passiflora experiments.

CD agrees about reversion.

The discovery of crossing in cryptogams is very interesting.

CD thinks JS’s Primula paper is fit for publication; he will send it on to the Linnean Society.

JS’s Primula paper was read at the Linnean Society and praised warmly by G. Bentham. Hooker was not present.

Bentham so impressed with JS’s paper that he is invited to become Associate Member of Linnean Society.

Letter of recommendation stating his high opinion of John Scott.

Supports relocating the Calcutta Botanic Garden to a site near the Himalayas.

JS should not consider repaying CD; the money was a gift, not a loan.

JS’s information on expression is the best he has received.

CD’s great interest in JS’s work on fertility of Primula crosses.

Thanks for Passiflora trials.

"By no means modify even in slightest degree any result."

CD wishes he had counted rather than weighed Primula seeds.