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Discusses inability to vote for the University as he and his brother have taken their names off the Boards; he has votes for Palmerston only.

Discusses appointment of new trustees for JSH’s chantry lands. List of current trustees enclosed with known deaths noted.

Asks JSH to make contact with Joseph Jukes, ahead of his 1842 expedition to New Guinea, the Torres Straits and Australia, in order to increase his understanding of botany.

Asks whether JSH can send specimens of some of the rarer plants found in the Cambridge region. Invites him to Edinburgh and offers access to duplicates.

Discusses JSH’s description of the leaves of Malaxis paludosa and states that he made the same description at an earlier date but did not publish it. Casts doubt on the observation that they are parasitic.

Requests British specimens of Malaxis paludosa and offers JSH a Swiss specimen.

Discusses planned trip to the Scottish Highlands with William Jackson Hooker and his hopes to explore in Breadalbane area.

Responds to JSH’s Salix request list, together with other plant requests, and asks for specimens. Discusses observations of Salix fragilis and Russelliana in the Edinburgh region.

Responds to JSH’s offer of plant specimens. Provides a list of species, stating that it only covers Cambridgeshire deficiencies in his British specimen collection.

Acknowledges receipt of package of plant specimens from JSH and explains that he has not had time to add them to the Herbarium.

Has been working on a botany paper for new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. After this, working with William Jackson Hooker on The Botany of Captain Beechey's Voyage.

Making plans to move to property in Kinrossshire, which is being extended to contain library and plants. Plans to provide JSH with dried willow specimens with names from Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

Explains serious illness as reason for lack of scientific activity. Asks JSH for a list of required plants and plans to find specimens from Yorkshire. Requests rare orchid specimens from Cambridge region.

Has just returned to England from America and been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Acknowledges receipt of money in return for works delivered to JSH.

Has completed 50 drawings in America as improvements on The Birds of America and asks JSH for help with increasing subscriptions. Comments on animal specimens.

Baxter sends a copy of part two of Stirpes Cryptogamae Oxoniensis and also sends a prospectus for forthcoming work by Gerard Edwards Smith on the botany of southern Kent.

Thanks JSH for presents and sends New Year’s greetings.

Discusses publication and distribution of the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnaean Society. Also discusses the influence of the Society and the status of natural sciences at Cambridge.

Discusses crustacea analysis to be done by Bell and others, together with labourers’ horticultural show organised by JSH.

Sends corrected list of Podophthalma. Discusses intended journey of ‘Lester’ to Egypt.

Regrets inability to find specimens for JSH as not in London and states that collection containing skeletons of a beaver and alpine hare are in Cambridge with William Clark. Discusses use of JSH’s name in lecture to be published in The Lancet.

Makes arrangements for Linnean Society meeting. Discusses local politics and ‘Memoranda’ written by JSH.

Makes arrangements for JSH to stay with him in London and for possible meeting with Hooker.

Sends thanks for receipt of papers and memoranda; praises JSH’s school sermon; regrets that archaeological digs during a recent visit to Derby area were unproductive.

Invites JSH to visit him in Derby area to investigate two sites of possible archaeological interest: potential Roman remains on the banks of the River Derwent opposite Little Chester; a barrow in Tugford that looks to be unopened.