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resting-place in the great highway that connects the nations 
of the East and West. There is a constant and countless 
succession of visitors, like wave succeeding wave, that touch 
our shores and pass on. Many are men of talents and 
acquirements, and I receive all of distinction. Wallich’s 
work is what strikes them as most worthy of admiration, 
and I am proud of having it to show them. It will give 
an immortal impulse to the study of Botany, wherever it 
reaches. 
I send you a germinating Coco de Mer, by the Lady Flora. 
Do not despair of it; for the vegetation is so slow in making 
way through its shell of flinty hardness, that it is sometimes 
twelve months in the ground before it comes up. 1t should 
be but lightly covered with leaves, letting the shell lie in the 
earth not more that one half of its depth. 
Wallich's old friend, the Hon. Mr. Gardner, is just 
arrived, and I shall call on him and show him such attention 
as Wallich's friends deserve at my hands. He shall see our 
garden, and, above all, he shall see the plants of his own. 
India, published by his friend. I shall endeavour on this 
occasion to write to our good friend, Professor Hooker: 
some of the specimens are for him; but all are to your 
address, and, of course, wholly at your disposal. Mr. Bojers 
new plants will be interesting to him, and may pee 
appear in some of his publications. 
CHARLES Terram 
MR. BURCHELL’S BRAZILIAN JOURNEY. _ 
Tas intelligent a and persevering irideliat and sccomplidid 
Naturalist, so well known by his valuable «Travels in 
Africa," has recently regurned from Brazil. ln the early 
part of the year 1825, he had planned out for himself a very 
extensive journey across the Continent of South America | 
from Rio to Peru, and returning by Mendoza and Buenos $ 
