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'Opypneyov k<x\ cv Aiyinrrto, — Why the host melons are 

 produced in marshy and moist places, as about Or- 

 chomenus (in Bceotia) and in Egypt. 



Will you be kind enough to favour me with a 

 line at your leisure ; — and believe me to be, dear Sir, 

 Yours very faithfully, 



Rob. Walpole. 



Sir J. E. Smith to Dr. JVallich. 



Dear Sir, Liverpool, Sept. 16, 1813. 



Your most polite and obliging letter of the 12th 

 of January last (accompanied with those of Colonel 

 Hardwicke and Mr. Loring,) did not reach me till 

 a few days before I left home for this place. I hnd 

 letters are readily sent to India from hence, and 

 therefore I will not delay thanking you for your li- 

 beral offers of communication, in which I fear I 

 shall be the chief gainer, unless you have any bo- 

 tanical doubts or queries which you think I may 

 have a chance of solving. Nothing could be more 

 desirable to me than to receive from you dried spe- 

 cimens for my herbarium, especially of any of your 

 new or rare plants. I am particularly desirous of 

 Scitaminece, Orchidece, Liliacece, which experienced 

 botanists now learn to dry well, but which, being 

 rather difficult, have formerly been given up in de- 

 spair by collectors, and are rare in herbariums : — I 

 find a weak solution of corrosive sublimate, with a 

 little camphor dissolved in it, preserves dried plants 

 from the attacks of all insects. My whole Linnaean 

 herbarium is thus poisoned, by means of a camel- 



