My dear Sir

I have received the sanction of the Council to making Hybridization a specialty in our “Proceedings”,—and I turn to you for Encouragement as the man most interested in it in all Britain¹

My idea is to have a column devoted to that subject always standing—in which the records of the success & failure of Hybridisers may constantly be recorded— To make in fact a quarry or storehouse of facts out of which you & other thinkers may come & pick principles hereafter.—

Every hybridiser keeps a note-Book— Now I think if the dry notes in these were published with the results, much useful matter must appear. I should not think of publishing crosses between varieties of the same species—but almost every thing above that—& even something of that occasionally—where unusual success or failure attended particular circumstances—

Let me hear whether you approve of the idea—& if you do, write me a little note of Encouragement such as I might publish to induce others to follow & at times perhaps perhaps you will lend me a fact or two—²

Believe me to be | Yours very sincerely | And^w. Murray.