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JDH has just written an obituary for [Brian Houghton] Hodgson & will now write one for Ferdinand] von Mueller. Writing these Society obituaries is becoming too much work for JDH. JDH has been corresponding regarding [Joseph] Banks. Mr Ings[?] has sent him letters written by [Daniel] Solander, Cunningham, & [William?] Anderson which will be donated to the RBG Kew herbarium. JDH is pleased that Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer will take over the finances for the Royal Society, not Britten. As a trial for work on the Ceylon [Sri Lanka] flora JDH has been looking at the genera Carex & Fimbristylis with reference to work by [George] Clarke & [Geroge] Bentham. He thinks it would take him 2 years & 2 volumes to complete the flora following [Henry] Trimen's style, & the Government will need to subsidise it. JDH has heard that [George] King is going to request another year [as Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden and Cinchona cultivation in Bengal].
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