April 20th/[18]66 ROYAL GARDENS KEW

My dear Munro*1
King's "Bamboo paper" has come, Bentham & I think it will hardly be worth reading to the Society & certainly not worth publishing. -- It is simply a list of names referred provisionally to genera & subgenera including a vast number which he has never seen at all. You had better therefore proceed with your paper without delay. I think it would hardly be fair to send you this paper, under these circumstances, on the other hand, as our main

reason for [1 word crossed out, illeg.] not publishing, in perhaps even [1 word illeg.] it, must be the fact of your fuller[?] materials & being actually at work. it I think imposes on you the propriety & expediency, of finishing your paper without any delay.
Thomson returns tomorrow, & I will consult him about all this also. The above is Bentham's & my present opinion.
Very bad news of Harvey.
E[v]er sin[cerel]y y[our]s | Jos D Hooker [signature]