To William Jerdan 11 July 1833

Dear Sir,

I received your letter of the 6th this morning & beg leave to return my thanks with those of Sedgwick & Whewell for the Nos. of the Lit. Gazette which accompd. it. Whewell has asked me to point out to you an erratum at p.424 Col.1. line 25 where altitude is printed for altitudes. We feel gratified at the kind manner in which the exertions of the resident members of the University have been noticed by you. In copying the Cambridge Chronicle for Sedgwicks remarks on Dr Dalton, the real point has unluckily been altogether omitted, & it may be as well perhaps if you were to give it in a future number of your Gazette. I will send it to you when I can get a copy of it from the press - for we have been very diligently employed in revising the report prepared by our own reporter, & intend appending this to the list of lithographic signatures when these are completed. It has been such hard work for Sedgwick & myself I can assure you (with Whewell's occasional assistance) to reduce the materials before us with something like order. The reporter was not sufficiently up to the task of reporting such rapid speeches as were occasionally delivered & a sad hash he had made of them. But I think the account we shall at length present will be found substantially correct in all the main features. It will occupy about 30 quarto pages with an alphabetical list of the names, the lithography taking up 62 pages more! The expense will be so heavy that we must charge a trifle for the volume* - about 3/6 I think - & allow members only to purchase 3 copies each. Your intended present of the Polar plants will be highly valuable to our Botanical Museum - for I have scarcely any of those that were collected, & little hopes of procuring any. In a public Museum they will be preserved when other private collections shall have perished, as I fear many formed of these highly interesting specimens have done already.

Believe me

Yrs very faithfully

J. S. Henslow

*N.B. We do not think it right to touch the funds of the Socy. to the amount of 300 £ in this matter by distributing the copies gratis - especially as they are likely to be so well employed in assisting the experiments proposed by the sections.