Thanks for the accounts which will be attended to.
I am proceeding with my estimates for the Government on the assumption that the whole of your Radiolarian work will be finished about || the first of March 1886. I mean the manuscript and plates all to be finished about that time.
What about the Siphonophora which you have and a Report on which you proposed to prepare?
All the Challenger work must be finished so far as plates and || manuscript are concerned by the end of 1886. If there is to be a Report on the Siphonophora it must be ready by that time. If you do not see your way to do it in this time perhaps some other naturalist would undertake it. At all events let me know your views about the Siphonophora. I think || you said there were only one or two species and that the Report would be a very short one.
It is quiet wonderful to think of your mother being 85 years of age.
