To Robert Brown   25 March 1831

My dear Sir,

I intend to trouble you with another list of our desiderata—not expecting that you will bother yourself with it among your better employments, but thinking it possible that you may have an opportunity of shewing it to some British Collector who may be willing to assist us—I don’t like to lose sight of our acquaintance, for though I am not worthy of it as a Botanist as yet, I trust in time to be able to hold converse with you— My time is too much occupied to make discoveries of my own but I continue to read most of those (in the physiological department,) which appear in the (foreign)! publications of the day—with this I must remain content.—The duty of detailing them to my Class keeps me well employed for every moment I can spare to our Science from those other engagements which I am obliged to attend to to procure a living—We are not here as at some universities sufficiently paid to allow of our devoting our undivided attention to the duties of our Professorships.

Believe me | with much esteem | yrs very sincerely | J S Henslow

On printed pamphlet 2 pp Botanical Museum and Library

Cambridge, March 25, 1828

[includes: ‘Desiderata to the British Museum’]