Professor Schultes to Sir J. £. Smith. 
Landshut, July 15, 1821. 
“My noble and very dear Sir, 
It was no sooner than yesterday evening when I 
was happy to receive your very kind letter, dated 
April 23rd, together with the splendid presents you 
favoured me with. I shall immediately try to make 
my countrymen acquainted with it by a translation 
made by my son Jules, under my directionand by my 
side. The young man cannot begin his botanical 
career better than with the study of this work every 
science: should be commenced with,—that of gram- 
mar; and I hope you will be content with his per- 
formance. He seems not to live but for botany ; 
and if Heaven yields him health and strength, as he 
was till now graciously favoured with, he will not 
fail in zeal and ardour for the amabzlis scientia,and 
return once from the Himallaya with a new world 
of plants. He might perhaps in a few years be fa- 
voured by our Government to gather plants on the 
source of the Ganges, as our Martius on the Rio 
Grandes. 
The fellow was yet, when scarce ten years old, 
applauded by some of our best herborists for his 
botanical eye, when he climbed with them on our 
Alps, and brought them the rarest and smallest 
Alpine plants he had never seen alive, but only in 
my herbal. 
I hope you had received since, my translation of 
your Introduction; I could not send it sooner than 
