To J. H. Balfour   21 October 1854

My dear Sir,

Many thanks for your last volume – which I shall find it very convenient to put into the hands of any one who asks me for an introduction to BG. When I begin my 4 promised lectures this winter at our Ipswich Museum- I promised to send you the list of our Herbarium plants to which my Village children have since added 50 species – & I add my last programme of our Hort. Soc- as it may possibly give a hint to some one inclined to take up such proceedings – experience has now fully satisfied me of the use of them – I tell all my friends that I am a ready recipient of all sorts of odds & ends in Nature & Art- They find their way into my Attic Museums & in due course come our under the Marquee[part word [illeg.] – & thence many get permited either to the Ipswich Museums or to my Cambridge Museum – for the latter I am always glad to procure any thing in Economic Botany – When I was at Cambridge last week I told Stratton to get sawed off for you a slice of a large section of the Orotava Dracaena where the fibres are arranged decidedly in concentric rings–

Believe me very truly & sincerely yours | J S Henslow