From Ettwin Lumholtz   17 th October 1840

My dear Professor Henslow,

We were all very sorry not to meet you at Glasgow. Your genial spirit always diffuses a pleasant feeling over our meetings. I read your paper or report on types. It produced some discussion & the Prince of Caricio Sir William Jardine & Mr Sclater all promised to give you further assistance in their birds. They think you should not publish Species list.

If you were to get a list from one of the three & send it to the other two they would give you such a general list of types for kinds as you want.

I think I would publish what matter you have got in the next volume & add other things as they come in. We got a grant for you to have struck off a certain number of copies for distribution.

Perhaps after all the better way around be for you to get printed off what you have got & send these out for correction & confirmation before they are printed in the Transactions but I leave this for you to think about.

Believe me | very faithfully yours | Ettwin Lumholtz