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lished some months ago, the first volume of our travels from 
Rio de Janeiro through S. Paulo, to the centre of the 
gold-mines. Besides this Mr. de Spix has published a 
description (in folio) of the new monkies, and another one 
(in 4to) of the new serpents of Brazil,and J, the first cahier 
of Genera et Species Palmarum (in folio) and of Nova 
Genera Plant. Brazil. (in 4to.) You will oblige me very 
much by acquainting your countrymen with these publica- 
tions. If you wish to have, from time to time literary 
notices of new German books, I shall send them fo you 
with great pleasure, especially the bulletins of our Royal 
Academy, and the Flora, a botanical Gazette, published 
by the Royal Society of Botany at Ratisbonne, by the 
latter you will be able to judge of the condition of Linneus’ 
amabil. scient. in Germany. 
I have no correspondence with any botanist of your 
extensive and rich country, and should feel grateful to 
you, sir, if by your mediation, 1 could enter into a corres- 
pondence with some gentlemen willing to communicate 
the ricnes of the North American Flora in exchange for 
African and European plants and seeds. I beg you, sir, 
to communicate this project to your learned countrymen. 
I intended to give in the last Cahier of my Genera and 
Species plantarum, a Synopsis of all the Species of Palms 
till now known, and should be very glad to get by your 
mediation, the flowers and fruits of the American ones. - 
_ The flowers may be sent dried, or yet better in glasses 
filled with brandy, a manner by which I preserved my 
collection of more than one hundred Brasilian Palms. To 
facilitate this sending, I beg you to give me the name of 
one of your European correspondents, to whom I may 
direct larger packets with books plants and minerals. If 
this should not be convenient to that gentleman, I wish 
you might send all which is destined to me, under the 
following directions. : 
A Son Excellence, Monsieur le Comte de Bray Ministre 
de Sa Majesté le Roi de Baviére, @ Paris ,or 
A Monsieur le Baron de Cetto, Chargé d’ affaires de Sa 
Majesté le Roi de Baviére, a’Londres. — 
These two gentlemen being duly advertised by a few 
lines from your hand wil! forward all you send me, to my 
direction. . 
