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have given me great pleasure. I am much obliged to you for the 

 curious list of North American Trees and Shrubs you sent me. I 

 hope to understand it better, when I see the originals in your 

 garden. 



This war will not last for ever ; and I hope we shall have some 

 leisure, hereafter, to study the productions of nature, and bestow 

 some time in cultivating plants, instead of destroying men. 



I am glad of the success you have had, in the few plants you 

 got, hereabout ; and wish New River and Pedee may reward you 

 for your trouble, if you undertake that journey, which, I fear, must 

 be attended with great trouble and fatigue. 



I got, a few days ago, a very great curiosity, from about six 

 hundred miles down the Ohio ; an elephant's tooth, weighing six 

 pounds and three quarters, and a large piece of one of the tusks ; 

 which puts it beyond doubt, that those animals have formerly ex- 

 isted on this continent. 



I sent your letter to Mr. Kenny. 



I am with great regard and friendship, dear sir, your most 

 humble servant, 



Henry Bouquet. 



DR. H. SIBTHORP* TO JOHN BARTRAM. 



Sir: 



As a correspondence, and communication of seeds and speci- 

 mens, might be serviceable to both of us, I've the more particu- 

 larly been desirous of cultivating such, and for that purpose have 

 forwarded letters, by friend Collinson and others, to you hereto- 

 fore, in hopes of an answer. * * As no part of Europe 

 has a larger collection than the Sherardian and Du Bois's, many 

 from Catesby, Houston, Gronovius, Clayton, and others, are a 

 further addition, with Morison and Bobart's collections. And the 

 North American plants thrive well in our soil, being swampy, or 

 low. Many from different parts, gardeners and others, send seed. 

 Many boxes come through your friend Collinson's hands, which 



* At the close of this letter, the writer (in the original) gives his address as 

 "Dr. Sibthoep, Professor of Botany at the Physic Garden, at Oxford." Although 

 a genus of plants was dedicated to him for his services, it is alleged that he did 

 much more for the science, by raising up a son (Dr. John Sibthorp) to cultivate 

 it, than by any writings or investigations of his own. See Rees's Cyclopaedia. 



