378 PHILIP MILLER [1756. 



soon as finished. I love to see nature displayed, in all its 

 branches. 



I shall be glad to assist thee with any new plant, or shrub 

 either dead or alive in substance, or a particular description ; as 

 thee pleases to inform me after what manner it will answer thy 

 intention the best. 



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PHILIP MILLER TO JOHN BARTRAM. 



Dear Mr. Bartram : 



I have been favoured with your three kind letters, and the two 

 boxes of plants which you was so good as to send me ; for which I 

 return you my thanks. To the first of your letters, I returned an 

 answer in September last ; but for fear it may miscarry, I beg leave 

 to repeat the substance of that, here. I am sorry so many years 

 passed without our having had an intercourse by letters, as I am 

 sensible how many observations I have lost, which must have fallen 

 in your way to have made. As 1 seek after truth, so I shall 

 always be glad to receive any informations from my friends, even 

 if they should contradict what I may have published, yet I shall 

 never think it derogatory to my character to own my mistakes, 

 and rectify them. * [Hiatus in 31S.~\ * I have 



not seen what Dr. Linnaeus has published from Kalm's observa- 

 tions, which he has mentioned in his Species of Plants, where he 

 has added many new names to them, and inserted some which may 

 probably be new. 



Kalm has published two volumes of his observations, in the 

 Swedish language ; but as I do not understand it, so I have not 

 been curious enough to send for the book, nor do I hear any good 

 character of it. * * * * 



I sent you four numbers of my Figures of Plants, some time 

 since, by our friend Mr. Collinson ; and should have now sent 

 you the others which are published, had I not waited for some 

 which will be better coloured ; for the persons employed to have the 

 care of this work, have not done me justice, so I have been obliged 

 to take it out of their hands. * * * * 



I have also sent you a few plants of some of our best sorts of 

 Roses, which I wish may prove such as you have not already ; for, 



