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Turkey and the Dardanelles. When there he found time to keep 
up his botanical work and made some excursions into the interior 
of Anatolia. The numerous plants he was able to collect are — 
preserved in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edin- 
burgh. On his return to England at the end of the War, in 1857, 
his long and valuable correspondence with Kew commenced. 
- His earliest letters preserved at-Kew are dated Oct. 17th and 
Nov. 12th 1857 from Arbroath. It is clear that he ntust have been 
in correspondence with Sir William Hooker before that date but 
unfortunately any, earlier correspondence there may have been 
does not exist. 
17th Oct. 1857. 
Dear Sir, 
ave been for some time residing in the-centre of the 
Flax Manufactures. If your Museum is not already supplied with 
specimens of the various qualities of the manufactured and 
prepared article I.shall have much pleasure in supplying them. 
The Muscari concerning which we took the liberty of consulting 
you when in London has turned out to be quite a new species 
. to which Dr. Playne Armitage and I have given the name of 
M. latifolium. : 
I have been busy with my Syrian collection but it is little I can 
do in the country without books and Herbarium. Dr. Parkes has 
inserted a list of the plants collected at Renkiri [Renkioi] in his 
Hospital Report. 
Believe me, 
sincerely yours, 
(signed) JOHN ene, 
12th Noy. 1857. 
Dear Sir, 
I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter relative to the 
specimens of Flax. I have now obtained the different qualities 
and shall soon have the material showing the various stages of 
manufacture. - 
Dr. Balfour has advised me to apply for a omic in one of 
the Canadian Schools as teacher of Natural nce. 
Should you consider me fitted for such an ni I trust you will 
not think me too bold in requesting you to grant me a few lines to 
that effect. 
Believe me, 
ear Sir 
Your most obedt. Servant, 
(signed). Jonn Kreg, M.D. 
_P.S.—I send ‘ few Photographs which I took in the East: 
I. Valonea oak (Quercus Aegilops) Renkiri, Dardanelles,1856, 
_ IL. Group of Valonea. Q. Aegilops, Dardanelles. 
