To Unknown 13 July 1825

Cambridge

13 July 1825

Dear Sir

I have not been able to answer your letter before, having been from Cambridge & it was only during my absence that Council of the Cam. Phil. Soc. have met to determine upon the papers for the next volume. As your paper appeared to them to contain an application only of a principle already discovered, to the explanation of a particular phenomenon, they do not consider it sufficiently original to form a part of the volume though they desire me to thank you for the communication as one of considerable ingenuity.

Allow me on my own part to thank you most sincerely for your offer of procuring some of the Devonshire plants for my Herbarium. I shall be very thankful for native specimens of any which are local, however common. Should Mr Banks wish for any of our Chalk county plants in this neighbourhood I shall be happy to dry them for him or any of yr friends who may be collectors. Give my remembrances to Saltan if you see him & believe me.

Dr Sir

Yrs very truly

J. S. Henslow

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