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society of your family and friends ! And may I add, 

 without being suspected of studied compliment, I 

 shall never lose the remembrance of those friendly 

 attentions you favoured me with, and the engaging 

 manners which made your fireside so desirable. Be 

 assured you will soon have another visit from me 

 after I return to Old England. Let me know what 

 I can procure you in India, in the vegetable king- 

 dom. In September last I dispatched a parcel of 

 seeds for the Marquis of Blandford ; and the half 

 of this packet I intended for your friend Colonel 

 Johnes. 



Let me repeat, I shall always be highly gratified 

 with your correspondence, and that I am, dear Sir, 



Your obliged and faithful 



T. Hardwicke. 



From TV. G. Maton, M.D. 



My dear Sir, Spring Gardens, Dec. 19, 1807. 



The specimen sheet of our new Pharmacopoeia 

 is just gone to the press, and I hope to be able to 

 send you a copy for your perusal very soon. I 

 have named the new Melaleuca, Cajeputi ; and had 

 I all the requisite specimens of that tree before me, 

 I believe I should have been tempted to draw up a 

 description of it, under the above name, to be laid 

 before the Linnaean Society ; but as it would be 

 done so much better by yourself, I trust that you 

 will some day give it, by way of supplement to your 

 observations on the genus, in our third volume. I 



