Blyth has studied the Indian Ruminantia.

I have been much struck about what you say of lowland plants ascending mountains, but the alpine not descending.

How I do hope you will get up some mountains in Borneo; how curious the result will be! By the way, I never heard from you what affinity the Maldive flora has, which is cruel, as you tempted me by making me guess.

I sometimes groan over your Indian journey, when I think over all your locked up riches.
When shall I see a memoir on Insular floras, and on the Pacific?
What a grand subject Alpine floras of the world (27/1.

Mr.William Botting Hemsley, F.R.S., of the Royal Gardens, Kew, is now engaged on a monograph of the high-level Alpine plants of the world.) would be, as far as known; and then you have never given a coup d'oeil on the similarity and dissimilarity of Arctic and Antarctic floras.