From John Lindley   12 May 1829

Dear Sir

I assure you you are not more disappointed than myself at our not meeting at the Raian dinner. I trust that the next time you are in London I shall not be disappointed again– I am always home, except on Mondays, from 12 to 4; and it will be particularly agreeable to me if you will do me the honour to call on me. Many thanks for your papers which I am sure I shall find highly useful. I am so entirely a novice at Lecturing that every hint is serviceable to me.

The list of Errata is just what I wish every body would furnish; this would enable me to make the 2 ^nd edition more perfect. The chief blemish of the present arises from the dropping of letters by the printers in the act of stenotyping. But these are all obvious, except Lolium the gen. ch. of which was completely taken up from Linn , and is very bad, though not wholly unintelligible–

But I do not quite agree in all your criticism e.g. θυμελαια will not give Thymelea but Thymelaea– and σκληρος will not make Schlerochloa but Sclerochloa – Is it not so–

Believe me My Dear Sir | Yours very truly |John Lindley