It so happened that yesterday evening was the last of our meetings, and I had to speak in the lecture-room.

The subject was Lithotint: but I placed the one ear in the library under a glass case, and after my first subject was over read the principal part of your letter--all that related to the wheat: and the information was received with great interest by about 700 persons.

Our President, Lord Prudhoe, was in the chair, and greatly desirous of knowing the age of the wheat.

You know he is learned in Egyptian matters, and was anxious about the label or inscription accompanying the corn.

I hope I have not done wrong, but I rather fear your letter will be published, or at least the wheat part, for a gentleman asked me whether he might copy it, and I instantly gave him leave, but found that he was connected with the press, the _Literary Gazette_.