%i imprevemettts in India. Sept, '5. 



sure respecting that establiflitnent ; and as the reception of 

 China plants cannot be attended with any increase of 

 charges, the honourable the governor in council approve* 

 of your recommending them to his care. 



You will be furniflied with a list of the mulberry plan- 

 tations, and an account of their expences, when all the 

 superintendants have reported the information required oi 

 them by some late orders from government. I am, ii*c. 



Feb. 18. 1792. 



Dr Jamet Anderson, to colonel Kydd, Bengal. 



Deak. Sir, 

 ■ I HAvrthe pleasure to send by captain Eitraan, who has 

 been obliging enough to take charge of them, six tallow 

 trees, and six lacquer trees, lately arrived from China. 



I have not yet opened the box witlv the barometers yoti 

 sent. As captain Kydd, and the gentlemen in Maifsore have 

 been so nobly employed, I have not ventured to divert 

 their attention ; but whenever the barometers can be at- 

 tended to, in the ananner you have specified, the experi- 

 ments of measuring the heights will no doubt enable a bet- 

 ter judgement to be formed of what the different coun- 

 tries are fittest for, than any thing we arc yet pofsefsed oi* 

 Feb. 27. 1792. I am, is'c. 



Dr James ./Anderson, to captain Simpson, commanding the 



Jhip General Abercrombie. 

 Dear Sir, 

 Understanding that you mean to touch at every port ob 

 the Malabar coast, in your way to Bombay, I beg leave 

 to trouble you with sixteen wine ba&ets, filled with three 

 different kinds of nopal plants, that have been raised here 

 for the culture of cochineal, (vix.) from his majesty's gar- 

 den at Kew, from the French king's garden on the isle of 

 -France, and from China, 



As the balkets are filled, and closely packed with nopal 

 branches, which can receive no injury, you may throw 

 them into the fhip's hold, or stow them away in any man- 

 ner the least inconvenient, taking care only that they 



