Letter from George Jennings Hinde, Avondale Road, Croydon, to [Henry] Woodward He has just finished a paper on the sponge remains in the Lower Tertiary strata of Oamaru and asks for Woodward's advice on the best means of getting it published. The paper describes a variety of minute spicular forms belonging to the sponges and not known hitherto in fossils. The text would occupy about 50-60 octavo pages, while the illustrations, which he has hand-drawn, would be 9 octavo plates. To have them lithographed would cost about £40-£50 and this expense is a hindrance to getting the paper in print. The Geological Society would not make such an outlay on a simple paper. He asks if there would be any possibility of obtaining a grant from the Royal Society for the plates. Henry Woodward was awarded a grant of £40 from the Royal Society's Donation Fund in December 1891, 'to assist Dr. Hinde in illustrating his Memoir on sponge remains from the Lower Tertiary strata of Oamaru, New Zealand'. 12 October 1891