JDH apologises for not sending his greetings on Brian Hodgson's birthday. JDH last wrote to Hodgson after hearing from Mrs Stirling about Arthur Grote's death. JDH & family are healthy despite the harsh winter weather. JDH has heard they are successfully making pure sulphate of quinine in Darjeeling. Chinese trade is increasing between Tibet & Darjeeling. Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer is unwell. The Mallets are going to Grasse. Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant-Duff is returning from India via Rome & the Riviera. Marianne North is pleased with her Alderley home [Mount House]. JDH will be staying at The Camp, Sunningdale for the foreseeable future. JDH & Hyacinth send their love to Susie [Susan Hodgson].

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JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer to say that he will recommend Kirk as a candidate for membership of a society [The Athenaeum Club?]. JDH praises [George] King's Ficus work particularly regarding sexual difference in the flower, & says he has progressed beyond the work of [Guglielmo] Gasparrini, [Hermann Maximilian?] Solms-Laubach[?] & Miguel. JDH is encouraging King to work on Palms, Pandanus & Musa rather than the Perak flora. JDH is stunned by the Baccaurea King has sent. JDH is currently describing Bradleia. He mentions that [James Edward Tierney?] Aitchison[?] is upset by the omission of his name in a new order. JDH will be glad to get Sikkim Rhododendrons from Thiselton-Dyer.