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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. It 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. Bojer's 

 new plants will be interesting to him, and may perhaps 

 appear in some of his publications. 



Charles Telfair. 



MR. BURCHELL'S BRAZILIAN JOURNEY. 



This intelligent and persevering traveller, and accomplished 

 Naturalist, so well known by his valuable " Travels in 

 Africa," has recently returned from Brazil. In 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 



