My dear Sir

I thank you very sincerely for your kind letter & present of the fossil Balani.² After my work is completed I shall present my entire collection to the British Museum, & yours shall go with them.³ I am much obliged for your request to M^r Landsborough⁴ to collect the species where he lives, for I am anxious to get specimens from a good many places to make out the range of our British species. It will be in very good time when you come up in the Spring.— When I go next to London, I shall probably find the fossils at the Geolog. Soc.⁵

Pray believe me | Yours sincerely | C. Darwin