He lists several names for Buxton's 'government', headed by Sir Thomas Acland. He writes that he had been giving the Agricultural Association much thought, but that it needed to be established with circumspection, and that he was unable to contact a number of those they wished to associate with it because they were travelling on the continent or in several parts of the country. He and Samuel Gurney hoped to interest many men influential in the City in their project; without them, the Agricultural Society was likely to fail, but this part of the work could not be done in time to establish it before the expedition set sail. He turns down Trotter's proposal that Buxton's nephew Gurney Hoare should take an adventure out with the expedition.