JDH informs Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] that [John Firminger] Duthie has sent JDH a collection of Kumaon Impatiens, including new species. JDH thanks WTTD for sending him the answer to the Committee on Kew and the British Museum [of Natural History]. JDH plans to have lunch with [Dietrich] Brandis. JDH offers to give the [RBG Kew] the microscope used by [John Stevens] Henslow. Praises the paper [Albert] Gunther has written on the [William John] Swainson letters & expresses intention to do something similar himself for [George] Bentham's correspondence.