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Since that period, Dr. Wight’s residence has been almost, if 
not entirely, at Negapatam; where he is engaged in his 
medical duties. The man of science, whatever his profession 
may be, will, by a well-arranged use of his time, find some 
leisure for his favourite pursuit: especially when, as in the 
present instance, that study is one intimately connected with 
his profession. So it is with Dr. Wight. He has diligently 
explored the neighbourhood of Negapatam; he has sent col- 
lectors, at his own expense, to various distances, and employed 
draughtsmen ; and then formed the wish that the plants, thus 
discovered and delineated, should be made known to the 
world, in a form similar to that of English Botany. 
These figures, and the excellent descriptions made on the 
spot by Dr. Wight, will be published in the present Work, 
under the head of * Jilustrations of Indian Botany, particu- 
~ larly of the Southern parts of the Peninsula.” The drawings 
‘being generally too large for an octavo plate, it is resolved 
that they shall all be given on a quarto size, and coloured: 
and, in order that they may form a connected series, they 
are entitled * Supplementary," and are numbered separately 
from the rest of the plates in the Work. 
It will be at once seen, that to Dr. Wight is due the 
entire merit of this publication. It remains for me only to 
make such additions and alterations as my more favoured 
situation, an extensive library, and a large eger pe it 
into my power to effect. : So DOW" 
And here I must again express kidy ona icknowledge 
ments to Dr. Wallich, without whose friendly encouragement 
and important assistance, my knowledge of Indian Botany 
would have been limited indeed. His publications, his im- 
mense catalogue of the collections in the Museum of the 
Hon. the East India Company, and, above all, the numerous 
authentic specimens I have had the happiness to receive from 
the Hon. Company through him, have already enabled me 
to decide upon some species, whose names would otherwise 
still have remained in doubt.— W. J. H.] 
| . GaAsqDy, 20th October, 1830. 
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