To John Phillips 2 July 1833

My dear Sir,

Not to keep you in suspense I shall at once answer your letter tho' I fear I cannot yet completely answer any of your queries:-

1. Whewell gave copies of the report to Quetelet & Dufresnay, but I think that Rogers need not have one. I will send one to Agardh.

2. The reporter has not yet completed his task, but will finish tonight & then we shall revise it & get it printed in 4to to correspond with the Lithographs. Perhaps the University will do this for us free of expense. It will therefore be hardly necessy. to prepare a 2d transcript for you.

3. 4. I have only received Daubeny's papers & will send them to you with any others that I may yet receive in a few days.

5. When I have done with the list of members I will send you the book, & I will draw up a sketch of what ought to be the routine on another occasion for admitting them &c &c

6. The lithographic names is an awful consideration. I find it will be an expense of about 200£. To cover this we must sell 1000 copies at 4/- each, which I think may be effected by sending a letter to the members stating that each Member (& Members only) may provide themselves with one or two copies. 3000 were too many, but it can't be helped now, & if there are not sufft. sold off before the next meeting I think that some will at the next & that ultimately we shall not be losers. I have received a few more compositions from men who approve of our plan of laying out their money in encouraging experimental researches & I doubt not that we shall receive still more. - Our aquatic expedition was of the most successful kind. We started at 10 & returned at 11 P.M. all apparently quite satisfied we held a section in the Bassc which discussed the subject of colors to be adopted in descriptions of Nat. History. We had Smith, Brunell, Greenough, Sir C. Lemon, Selby, Curtis, Stephens, Agardh, cum multis aliis - in all between 40 & 50.

Believe me

very sincerely Yrs

J. S. Henslow