To Charles R. Bree 27 December 1851

My dear Bree,

Thanks for the sight of your diagrams. It is always useful to interchange ideas. What you have called colossal I have viewed as rather microscopic. My lettering & figures are always much larger - experience having taught me that unless this be so they cannot be seen across a lecture room. When I see you & Mrs Bree I can put you up to a dodge or two in this line - by which effect may be gained & time saved. Where did you get your figures? - from Curtis in the Agricl. Journal? In thetypical series in the Ipswich Museum now in progress you will find drawings of mine of Bunt, Smut & Mildew, appended to the specimens themselves. How did you get vegetable Albumen. I have a lot of Caseine from potatoes but no albumen. The rest I have also obtained. I find several persons writing to say that they will assist with specimens for the typical series. 3 are sending Algae. 1 Lichens - & I shall attack Berkely for Fungi. When I come to Zoology I shall ask you to let me know who may be likely to assist in Entomology. We do not want rareties so much as common things typical of groups & when possible Suffolk specimens. I will return the Drawings next week when George goes to Stowmarket on his way to Bury. When you write next let me know where Liebig has determined the conversion of starch to sugar without diastase.

Kind regards to Mrs Bree &

Believe me

Very truly Yrs

J. S. Henslow