To Unknown [Hadleigh Farmers] 30 May 1848

My dear Sir,

I am just summoned by our Vice Chancellor to Cambridge for the early part of next week - as our new Curator of the Botanic Garden is arrived & they want my attendance to arrange preliminaries for removing the garden. I was fearful when I last wrote that this might happen which prevents my joining at once to dine with the Association. I wish you all success & shall hope for some future occasion of meeting you at their anniversary dinner. If any thing is said about the Gypsum experiment I proposed say that I have only as yet been able cursorily to look over the returns - that these have been too few to elicit much that is positive - but that I hope very soon to draw up a notice upon the subject & shall hope to be able to convince practical men that they must put a little more faith in these sets of experiments than this first essay shows me they have been inclined to do!! My lectures at Cambridge interfered with my thoughts too much to allow me to turn my attention as soon as I had hoped to the examination of the results. I have had only one application for a Dinner ticket at Stoke - from Gaynor of Chelsworth

Yrs very truly

J. S. Henslow

P.S. I have received the additional forms - & fear that you thought I wished to hurry you - as they came by post - but this was not my intention.