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IMPROVED METHOD OF PAINTING «ANVAS. 



durability of 

 the painted 

 canvas. 



sufficiently warm to give light to it. It is instantly con- 

 verted to a blackish colour, which, when ground in oil, 

 makes a good dark lead colour. It dries quick, gets 

 remarkably hard, and resists the weather beyond any other 

 lead colour. It will be extremely useful in the Ordnanca 

 department for, painting guns. 



I am, Sir, 



Your humble Servant, 



Wm. ANDERSON. 



This letter was accompanied with a certificate from 

 J. B. Harrison, lieutenant and commander of his majesty's 

 brig Red-Breast, dated Feb. 26, 1808, stating, that the 

 hammock cloths on board the said vessel were painted by 

 Mr. Anderson, in April 1807, and had since that time 

 been constantly in wear, and exposed to the weather day 

 and night; that owing to this new mode they had been 

 preserved supple, without cracking, and that the paint ad- 

 hered to them in a far superior manner to the former mode 

 of painting. 



State of the 

 botanical 

 garden at St. 

 Vincent. 



XIV. 



Account of the Royal Botanical Garden in the Island of 

 St. Vincent. By Dr. Alexander Anderson. * 



SIR, 



FlU 



,OAI my long silence you will conceive me either neg- 

 lectful or ungrateful to the Society, but this is not the case. 

 The reason is, I had nothing of consequence to mention 

 relative to the garden, and it would be trespassing on your 

 time, and interfering with matters of consequence by 

 troubling you with trifles. 



Although I have introduced a number of plants in the 

 course of last year from different quarters, yet few of them 

 are yet known to possess valuable properties, except some 

 useful woods. 



Trans, of the Society of Arts, vol. xxv, p. 187. 



I am, 



