p.[1]: "Many thanks for your note...";

p.[5]: "2. to forget the principle..."

Enquiring about a Govt. grant-in-aid through the Royal Society, for Spongiadae research; enclosing list of published papers; discusses drawings; financial loss.- W. Thomson has sent me Deep Sea Sponges from Edinburgh for description. Would you comment on my Spongiadae paper in the Annals? Devoting my leisure to scientific studies in order to follow your precept of making fellow-creatures better and happy. P.S. Dr Gray says ask for £100 not £50; the Bombay Asiatic Society gave me £100 for equipment.