BOTANICAL GARDEN AT ST. VINCENT. 33J 



SIR, 



SINCE your last letter to mc very little matter interesting Correspond- 

 to the Society has occurred, and few acquisitions made to c ™ e i ' l i terru P t - 

 v., . .. . ,._ edby the war. 



the garden subservient to medicine or commerce. War 



interrupts correspondence in natural history as much as 

 speculations in commerce. 



For 18 months past I have had expectations of some use- 

 ful plants from Mexico, aad other Spanish colonies in that 

 quarter, by the way of Cuba, but thence the transportation 

 must be circuitous by North America, and after that sub- 

 jected to loss and interruption, before they can reach St. 

 Vincent. I have therefore given up all hopes while the war 

 continues. 



As the Society may be desirous to know the present Catalogue of 

 state of the garden, I have transmitted a catalogue of the P lants * 

 variety of plants it contained on tlje 24th of September last : 

 there are many more from different quarters received with- 

 out names, or those that are known by the aborigines, and 

 I cannot arrange them until they flower, t am, with great 

 respect, 



SIR, 



Your most obedient humble Servant, 



ALEXANDER ANDERSON. 



The catalogue alluded to, which is dated September 24, 

 1806, enumerates G7 commercial and medicinal plants ; 49 

 esculent; 101 medicinal ; and 63 economical: 76 valuable 

 woods; 88 fruits; and 929 curious or ornamental exotics. 

 There are likewise many others, which, not having flow- 

 ered in the garden, cannot be ascertained. 



XV. 



Query on Accidents frequently happening to Dies with i&hich 

 Medals are struck. In a Letter from a Correspondent. 



To Mr. NICHOLSON. 

 SIR. 



iCEADING the life of Rambcrt Dumarest in a French pe- 

 riodical publication, I was struck with the following remark. 



"To 



