My dear Sir

I am very much obliged to you for the photograph.—¹ I enclose the reference you request.² I daresay—if you have not the book—we c^d. lend you our copy a few days. It is a 30/- book, with coloured figures of very numerous seeds of Orchids, &c.—

I drew diagrams on Thursday.³ Unfort^ly. being the last meeting of the Session there was such a crowd of work,—including a Moa paper,⁴—that y^r. very valuable paper was not done justice to at the ‘reading’. No observation or criticism was made after it.

Yours very sincerely | D Oliver