JSH discusses election of a new Curator for Cambridge University Botanic Garden and encloses report to the Vice Chancellor to be passed on to James Stratton as testimonial.

Thanks Balfour for inclusion of some of his tables in the Manual of Botany and points out errors of genera and species in the tables based on Lindley and Bentham.

Asks for a sample of ‘woody fibre’ used in India for his museum.

Apologises for previous letter pointing out an error in Balfour’s Manual of Botany based on JSH’s tables of genera and species, in turn based on Lindley. Error was corrected in Balfour’s text.