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my Himes thie anaon, bat Í feel tolerwbly comiident that | rather better state, proper! 
with equal theility. My powder i| sending thore I bere, becuase they are not yet 
it will destroy them 
kept in a very dry, 
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late Mr. Martin Mayar—Mr. Mayes, whose thet above the sea, im the great mountain forests I see The 
death you noticed hst week, known and before ae I sit, and which Tail riren of paper ol pa 
bs. p respected by a age namber of patrons Tantalus, there I have no doabt I shookd get some fine and partly from D. Han A 
the trace ge the credit of raising | things; bat species c low ground are few ana Horaninow Mr. Berkeley i 
b his own industry, integrity, love con | small. shall pat youa few little bits in this lett two of these tuberiform bodi 
stant stady of profession, from a poor friendless lad | however, that you may the sort of thing. I am) nearly ted to Mylitta australis, 
to the proprietorship of one of the most este sadly in want of books the Cry cially | marked Pachyma Coniferaram, 
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nurseries in land (that of Durdharm Down, Bristol), | Moses, Hepatic, 
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tion of British birds. hilst with Mesure. Sweet & | of several other Alpine tribes bar 
sentatives. Of Ferns I ve 
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warm eupbosrd, sear the fire; a| many ; and the wet season, when only it is posible to Museum ; 
o damp air will nearly destroy ite | collect these things, i» just commencing her . pa 
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others. This becanse ve ving 
very httle to the hills, and it is at 1000 or 2000 feet, in | Cochine 
that th t ot |as grow 
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a the Zoological department 
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lening archi g m- | Java a y to be very ing at the roots of Pines 
Mant study sml time required to manage his ex-| abandant. If they incresse in a like jon here, | and as ing valuab’ i 
tensive business, he found time to collect, pre-| it must be one of the richest tri the world in} w nding this statement 
mrve, n himself a ve extensive | these plants. In other respects collection will| his Enchiridion nicu 
and ble ion of British i pidoptera, | sho t T have not been high up. I have one Bego- | subj to his brother, Mr. Thomas 
© besides a beautiful collec- | nia, few M ws, one Gaaltheria, and | Shanghai, by whom he had been supplied, 
© o e | with the Pe-foo-ling, bat also with a second 
Ped ich | Choo-ling ; together with some o 
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kinds, one of a Geranium na p t p one or 
Mundi about 1823), realised for that firm s | Orchidew, but of these T certainly shall get mare in the | Mr. Hanbury had at first supposed the 
amount of money than any other seedling ever | bills, They are thus divided, and the proportions h the rhi f pecies of Smilax, allied te 
out before or since. He has also raised during a | too show that I have not been at great elevations:— |an opinion entertained. by Martini and others 
series of years œ collection of seedling Amar ie, | Lycopodinces Lae “ia Peis OO > COR which Mr. H. was compelled to relinquish an 
numerous, and far sarpassing any to be found elsewhere. Potypodiacess carne i ae | that a decoction of the tuber, when tested with 
A very delicate constitution precluded him from — a we > | gave tion of the of starch, 
emang A ampan at horticultural meetings, &e, bat | Oleicheniaces | ii abundant in that of the Smilax. 
he may ruly to have worn himself out in the | Hymenopby lew 5 by Mr. Ki toa 
canse; and his loss to the Durdham Down Nurseries, | Ophioglosrem a solidum in the Lin 
with which he was so long and so valuably connected, | Salviniacse .. Bie | tubers ing 
will not be easily red. He leaves a widow and 116 of that plant, it 
three sons to mourn the loss of his kindness and affec-| Tho great abundance of Hoyacew is a rkable | was 
tion, John feature in the vegetation here, both in species and in| Mentical. Specimens both of 
which Bees.— Pe | aahei og gal some of them are v beautiful. I| Choo-ling fi 
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