I have applied to the Dodor to know if the ex- 

 periment was made on a larger Hale the fuccecd- 

 ing year, as was propofed? He informed me, 

 u that he believed it was not; that Mr. Miller 

 w went to India foon after that experiment, and 

 c< that' he knew nothing more on. the fubjed than 

 ? has been publitlied in the Philoibphical Tranf- 

 f< adions." 



Mr. Miller has been employed by the India 

 Company to make refearches into the Botany of 

 the Eait; and I am perfuaded the refult will be 

 very entertaining to fuch Botanifts as delight in 

 the ftudy of exotics; but I will venture to affirm, 

 that the fingle experiment upon the grain of 

 wheat (if properly attended to) will prove of 

 more real and intrinfic value to this country than 

 all the exotics, or than all the knowledge of ex- 

 otics, he can poflibly import. 



I am fully fcnfible, that the expence and labour 

 of fetting wheat, in the manner as defcribed in 

 that paper, will render it impradicable in com- 

 mon ufe; but 1 Hill think it is a mod impor- 

 tant and valuable difcovery, and that it merits 

 the utmoft degree of the attention of fuch a pa- 

 triotic and public-fpiritcd Society as is eftablifhed 

 at Bath, 



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