From John Phillips   27 October 1855

My dear Henslow

I think the best thing you can do is to have your catalogues set up in slips 8 ^vo by Taylor & Co, as if for our Reports. They will understand, & it may save us something, & so be a source of credit to you & me. I will forward them to Mess ^rs Taylor.

How odd! To ask us for κοπρολιθικοι—Yet we have in the Museum many examples collected by Buckland—only I can hardly send them away, as the Collection though mine to arrange is not so to derange. No one else has any here. My sister thanks you much for kind recollections —so do I.— I will try to help in the Geological lists but the preparation of my ‘Manual’ costs me so much labour as to well nigh saturate my spirit of work.

Ever yours truly | John Phillips