Letter from William Benjamin Carpenter, on his paper 'Researches on the foraminifera - supplemental memoir. On an abyssal type of the genus orbitolites - a study in the theory of descent' to the Secretary of the Royal Society Has read the referee's remarks and wishes to contact him to explain aspects of the paper that he commented on. He can 'scarcely suppose that he would object to my knowing who he is, as I quite recognise the pertinence of his remarks'. Subject: Physiology [Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1883]. 13 July 1883