Thanks CD for subscribing to the Cybele Hibernica.

Reports some observations made on the common buffaloes of India seen swimming and diving in 12ft of floodwater in order to crop the herbage beneath.

Thanks for fact about the buffalo diving.

Asks whether the animal was a Bos or a Bubalus.

It is Bos arni which dives for herbage and in so doing it also swallows many freshwater shrimps.

Did not know that the Arnee had been called a Bubalus.

Thanks for information about shrimps.

Thanks for copy of part one of EPW’s Spicilegia biologica (Wright 1870).

Is applying for the Chair of Botany at Edinburgh and asks CD for a testimonial.

Has already written a testimonial for [?William Ramsay] McNab as Professor of Botany. Hence what he can write for EPW will not be of much use.