” Your most obt. inithnble servant, 
Le Chevalier de Martius. 
Pe Ss. * Xe ou will see _ ihe memoirs I send you- sigith 
this letter, that J differ in the explanation. of eatediluxian 
“plants, ia some points from Mr, Brongniart, whose trea: 
tise was printed quite in the same time as mine. I xibeinot 
be ePian ent that Equi setusie dhogt@have composed such 
the 
ete wh that the forms of Cycas 
or related ones, appear im it. Palms are 
re — in pate ies of csc but 
the the newest for- 
rece ntly forited in Pails the objeeo of which is the in 
and diffusion of Geographical pence : 
me } tie undese- 
king. As long as Geography is so ititietately coda 
with other branches of human learning, and while many 
of our globe are still omnes and others bu but : 
ee tly | cnown, the imp yf such 
US. 
iely is ees by he Brewets Government 
mo g its: members some. ofthe m i 
nation. 
