Galton suggests that Ewart contact Dr Walter Heape for research into insemination and fertilisation. He suggests how beneficial it would be for the Duke of Portland to keep records (including photographs) of his adult pedigree stock. He enquires when Ewart will next be publishing anything concerning hybrid zebras.

Heape writes that he is looking forward to learning of Ewart's conclusions on the ancestor of the coarse-legged horse, which he guesses to have been a wetland horse, and compliments Ewart on his horse handling ability.