He preferred to wait until a report had been received from the expedition, upon which to make their decisions. He offers, nevertheless, to invest some of his own money in the project if Buxton were unable to get enough subscriptions from men with large commercial interests. He asks Buxton to consider again the advisability of beginning cultivation and undertaking major commitments in the present state of their knowledge and that the venture should be thrown open to the public under a proper charter when that knowledge had been gained. Finally, he reports that he had had capital reports of Charles Buxton Jr. from Fisher.