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I was kind to your young friend Mr Gould from the College, now in Scinde with fever [John Gould's son?] Sending you a paper on sponges; a paper on the zoosperms of the Spongilla for the Annals [details]. Thanks for giving the sponges to Mr Bowerbank. Stocks sounds ill. I mean to stay at least 1 1/2 years in India, so I may be promoted to surgeon. Ordered to lecture on eye-diseases. Lecturers at post.