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J. Hawkins, Esq. to J. E. Smith. 
Dear Sir, London, June 25, 1799. 
I conceive that you must have had some trouble 
in packing up so large and miscellaneous a collec- 
tion, but I hope you have received every part of it, 
particularly a large collection of seeds made in his 
last tour, and named by him on the spot, as far as 
the plants could be ascertained from whence they 
were taken. 
I hope you will be able to decipher Dr. Sibthorp’s 
hand-writing, which is not the best. 
As to the want of names, I well recollect that he 
never affixed any to the specimens, but seemed to 
have a perfect knowledge of them, and therefore 
thought it perhaps superfluous. 
You, of course, will find little difficulty in ascer- 
taining them, after which you may refer to the 
Journals for their respective habitats, and all that 
relates to them. 
You will find that Dr. Sibthorp subdivided the 
Flora Greca in his last tour into a number of pro- 
vincial Floras, which has its use. There is a Flora 
Zacynthia, which was prepared for him by Consul 
Foresti before his arrival, with the vulgar names 
underwritten. Likewise a small collection of plants 
from Maina, procured by Consul Foresti from a 
Mainote. 
In the collection made during the last tour you 
will find a few sub-alpine plants, collected by me in 
Crete. 
