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Primulas and Androsaces are from the Himalaya, 

 and all the Lysimachia are from the neighbourhood 

 of Katmandu. 



Mr. and Mrs. Loring are in excellent health : 

 they are at present living at Barrackpore, and if 

 they knew I was addressing you, would certainly 

 have desired me to present you with their compli- 

 ments. 



Believe me, with the greatest possible respect and 

 esteem, 



Dear Sir, 



Your faithful and humble Servant, 



N. Wallich. 



From Sir Thomas Gage. 



Castel a Mare, July 30, 1820. 



My dear Sir James, 



The object of my troubling you with a letter from 

 this distant place, is to state, that having spoken of 

 our Linnsean Society to the Prince de Butera, a Si- 

 cilian nobleman of the first consequence in that 

 country, he expressed very strongly a wish to be- 

 come an honorary member. The Prince is extremely 

 fond of botany, and cultivates with great success a 

 number of very rare and curious plants. 



The Prince informs me there is a good garden at 

 Palermo, and well kept. I cannot say as much for 

 that of Naples, which is completely in a state of 

 disorder. Though introduced by letter to Tenore, 

 I have never been able to make his acquaintance. 



