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Gage has just had Prain's letter of 3 Sep and trusts next week to hear of a Curator of the Herbarium having been appointed. Now that he trusts the affair is to be settled two IMS[Indian Medical Service] men profess a desire to get the appointment. However, he questions whether they would be spared in view of the attitude of the Medical Authorities, who nowadays think it a grievance to have to spare men for non-medical posts. As regards Gage's deductions, the Government of Bengal has recommended that the Quinologist's allowance of Rs 300[?] be restored to compensate for the withdrawal of the like sum for the Professorship of Botany, now merged in the chair of Biology. If the recommendation is accepted, Gage shall then only have Rs 400 a month less than Prain had, and he shall be able to live in hope of reducing the difference a bit more within the next three years. He hopes Prain will be able to send out the Curator of the Herbarium at an early date. Gage asks Prain to warn the new man of the dangers of exertion in the sun. The newly arrived Economic Botanist for the Bengal Agricultural Department, Buttershaw, an Aberdeen graduate, was found dead in his bathroom at the Great Eastern Hotel from heat stroke. He had too lightly treated the Calcutta [Kolkata] September, probably on account of his West Indian experience. Gage and his wife are both well and trust that Prain and his wife are too. Pages 1 and 4 of 4.