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oa to double that number; understand by this how eld ol 
will be for you to quote it in a work intended for pu cation in 
the course of this year’’:* later, in an undated letter to Basted, the 
historian of Kent, written early in 1782, he says he hopes soon to 
leu? the work, for which iis had then ‘‘ near 700 plates pre- 
ared,’ + Sm h, commenting on the Sei pa ssage, says that 
transcribed ae im for the ste seem to qualify Smith’s implied 
censure, and suggest that the tion and numerous occupations of 
itm were mainly as seiner for the delay which resulted in the 
sian Herbarium) with those under which they were subse- 
qicirtly published. 
During the vo the more seonboning of the plants were 
pr described by slutiacr, whose MSS. are now bound in six 
arto volumes—“ Plante Terre del Fuego” (Jan. 1769), 
with whic} is bound * Plante eae Sanctee Helene” (May, 1771); 
‘* Plante Otaheitenses et aliarum ins. Oceani Pacifici’ (April to July, 
1769); “Plante Australie es Zeelan dia os rome 1769, to to’ March, 
and prepared for press, i n a fo! ume with similarly 
enumerations of the plants collected in Madeira (Sept. 1768) 
an Beksil, ‘* circa Rio de Janeiro ov., of which no 
sie MSS. r remain ; a second folio volume contains the prepared 
script of the Pacific Islands collection, and a third (paged 
Sldeiaonaly with the preceding) the ‘‘ Primitie Flore Nove 
* op. cit. ii. 
t Banksian Correspondence (MS.), ii. 99. 
} Correspondence of Linnzus, 579. 
§ op. cit. ii, 2. 
