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If ever you come to this part of the world it will give me great satisfaction 3 
Mrs. Wallich tv whom іп the meantime I beg to offer my best respects and you wil much o Ж 
тә by remembering me to Colonel Mackenzie, Dr. Russell and Миз. Robertson as well ай кта old 
friand that you may meet. If you have any opportunity of seeing my old = eae 
Batacharji it would give me much satisfaction to hear how my old people are. am muc 
pleased with your account of Bharat Singha. Yours most truly.” 
Towards the end of 1819 or the commencement of 1820 Hamilton visited 
London. This visit had two interesting sequels. Colebrooke, from whom һе took 
over charge of the Botanic Garden in 1814, obtained sanction from the Court of 
Directors to publish the antiquarian portions of Hamilton's Bengal Survey journals in 
the Transactims of the newly founded Royal Asiatic Society, which owed its origin 
to Colebrooke's enthusiasm and of which Hamilton became а member, Аб the same 
time Hamilton himself obtained from the East India House the botanical collections 
depositel there, in 1815. With his usual energy Hamilton began to name and arrange 
them for issue. In connection with this he took up commentaries on the Hortus 
Malabaricas and the Herbarium Amboinense, tasks that occupied much of his spare time 
for the next five years, 
The letter in which this visit to London is alluded to is dated Leny, near 
Callander, N. B., 8th July 1820. Тһе passage omitted deals with matters regarding 
the estate of his late nephew, Captain R. H. Buchanan, who had died in India, 
and does not concern our narrative, 
"I had the pleasure of receiving your very obliging letter of 6th December, 1819, some time 
әдә, but deferred answering it until I received the seeds which have arrived safe, I have sown 
part of these from Gosaingsthan and sent part to Macnabb and part to Shankly. I have also 
sowa part of the rice and sent part to Macnabb. Тһе remainder with all other seeds I sent to 
the Botanical Garden at Glasgow where there has been lately appointed a professor likely to be 
somewhat distinguished. Mr. Hooker, this person, is, I believe a correspondent of yours. Should 
you be able to procure any more seeds from the higher Alps, especially of trees, I shall be much 
obliged to you for them. I have no hot house and it is hardy plants therefore alone that I can 
cultivate and an addition to our hardy trees із very desirable, the number of those which bear this 
climate well being rather confined. 
I went lately to London and have got my dried specimens and descriptions, in arranging 
which for the Company’s collection and for publication in such journals as may accept them I am 
now very busily engaged. : 
The paper which Mr. MacCulloch took charge of for me has not yet arrived and poor Dr. 
Wright is dead. When I was in London poor Sir Joseph Banks was quite gone, evidently fast 
hastening to dissolution. His loss will be severely felt, nor do I see any likelihood of any fit 
person succeeding to his situation at the head of the Royal Society. Brown refused the Botanical 
Chair at Edinburgh worth £1,200 а year, s that I suppose he has good prospects in London, I 
suppose however not equal to what he refused, but he seems to have been unwilling to part with 
Bir Joseph's library and collection. 
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өзрбла Пу to Colonel Mackenzie, Mr. and Mrs. 
please present my best respects to your Lady. I remain, dear 
I beg to be remembered to all old friend;, 
Robertson and the Russells and 
Wallich, yours faithfully. 
Flemíng, whom I saw in London, 
: is very poorly. Shoolbred I h 
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