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transferred to the Linnean Society, and a letter from the Court of 
Directors of the Honourable East India Company addressed to 
Lord Stanley, then President of the Society, offering the Wallichian 
Collections as a free gift to the Society, was read at a meeting of 
the Society’s Council on 23rd June, 1832. This offer the Council 
accepted, resolving thereupon to hold the herbarium as a trust for 
the general benefit of science, and drafting in reply to the letter 
an address which was taken by the President and as many members 
of Council as could attend, to the East India House, Leadenhall 
Street, on 26th June, 1832. 
This letter and the address in reply were, by perniission accorded 
to Dr. Wallich* on 7th August, 1832, printed in the postscript to 
the third and last volume of Wallich’s Plantae Asiaticae Rariores, 
and are as follows :— : 
East India House, 19th June, 1832, 
My Lorp, 
Tuer Court of Directors of the East India Company have 
within the last four years caused to be distributed to various 
bodies in this country and in Europe, interested in the promotion 
of science, between 7,000 and 8,000 species of plants collected by 
celebrated naturalists in the Company’s service, during a series of 
years, in India. 
The objects being attained for which the originals of these 
specimens have been placed with Dr. Wallich in Frith Street, the 
Court of Directors feel that this Collection may not be an unaccept- 
able addition to the Museum of the Linnean Society of London, 
which already possesses the herbarium of the celebrated Linneus. 
We have therefore the honour, at the instance of the Court of 
We have the honour to be, 
y Lord, 
Your Lordship’s most obedient humble Servants, 
signed Joun G, Ravensnaw 
C. MARJORIBANKS, 
To the Viscount Stanley, M.P. 
The Council of the Linnean Society having had a letter laid 
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Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Court of Directors of the 
East India Company, in which that Honourable Court have been 
provision of cabinets. The Court of Directors of the East India Company 
had further voted a sum of £200 for the purchase of paper upon which to 
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