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Arabian specimens at Copenhagen. el shall I be only more and 
more confirmed in my opinion, that the Fates are ever adverse to 
the ean oe ee Ea of spares . . . By all that is great and 
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the French, or all other people together. . . . Again the plants of 
Solander and Banks recur to my imagination. When I turn over 
Feuillée’s figures I are ith more extraordinary things among 
them than n anywhere I cannot but presume, therefore, as 
Peru and Chili are so ers that in the South-sea islands, as grea 
an abundance of rarities have remained in concealment, from the 
ee of the world, to reward the labours of our illustrious 
voyag I see these e things now but afar off. If our travellers 
shoold “take another trip, I shall have seen them as Moses sa 
ro oa writing ae date 22nd January, ss says: ‘ Their 
voyage to the South Seas will probably make its appearance in 
April or May oa They have already eae to engrave the 
Riots fe operis: Plantarum omnium detectorum 
Terrarum maris ars is deseriptiones et figure,” and the four 
species described by him§ were only “known to Linneus from 
specimens and aie ie $s communicated a ‘Sir Joseph Banks.”’|| 
There are other references by Smith in the same work, e.g. under 
Correa rubra and Melaleuca suaveolens; as well as in his Exotic 
Botany (ii. 25), where he speaks of ‘‘ these fine Sktss intended for 
future publication, some of which, presented by Sir Joseph to 
i Ae oe kson 1 
the non-publication of the work on whic h so much time and mone 
had been spent. According to Smith,‘ the descriptive part of the 
work had been allotted to Solander; Banks seems to have occupied 
himself more with superintending the engraving of the plates. 
sa 
gress. About 550 plates are engraved, and I think, if circum- 
stances as yet unexpected do not oblige me to cut it short, it will 
Smith, Derrenponcencs ¢ of Linneus, i. 267. 
+ Letters on eg d, p. 34 (1% 
{t Supplemen ah Plentarvi; p- 16 (1781). 
§ op. cit. 136-7. 
!| Smith in Rees Cyclop. 8 
Correspondence of —— li, 2. 
