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doubt of his honour & merit, insomuch that I dare not hint any- 
thing like jealousy to him, nor give oes signs of backwardness to 
shew L’Hr. my collection. I have according ly Gace nswer to his 
enquiry by Brousst. about my return) told him that i shall be here 
about a month, & will return to London; but I mean to give him 
to understand that I want to go to Necsaek directly, as is really the 
case, & that I shall only stay a very few days at Chelsea, & those 
nq merely to shew him my herbarium; thus, he cannot see enough 
to do me harm, & will see all that I ought . shew oo for I would 
not be the first to shew jealousy, nor even to act ungenerously 
although in secret. At present I am well, with everybody here, & 
have great reason to be pleased with me reception. Des PFontaines 
houin are the men I most rely on & este eem, I mean after 
Broussonet. The latter Grosstonet) procured me access to 
Tournefort’s & Vaillaint’s Herbar ; & I have described 80 or 90 
plants for ere quite new, to en ao te Syst. Vegetabilium, about 
an edition of which n to consult with you: every body wants 
it, & all cacuaee me their help. No ne can do it without Lin- 
neus’s Herbm. I don’t like L’Héritier’s describing so many of our 
plants, because I keep the intended Linnean n Society always in view. 
I wish Salisbury would publis h the figures for which he has got 
os sede him ; 
know have great influence. Broussonet has pretty baie satisfied 
me that L’Héritier really could not at present give away any of 
Dombey’s specimens; they not being yet his eaneries hereafter 
we ought to expect something ia him; & he has promised me 
both for your Herbarium & m 
romise was daly cane out, for, though the whole 
collection is now in the Muséum d@’Histoir e naturelle ai Paris, the 
meee given to Banks are in the National Herbariu 
the receipt of these duplicates had some eight t with 
Sir Toseph, Sion the following year (29 April, — ne writes to 
L’Héri e have a project here which I fancy will be 
} ae: which mode we prefer to any other; as, by that 
to you; and a s you, in your stay here last summer, ~~ k drawings 
of most of our best Plants, to interfere as little as is in my power 
with your Pee of them, As the work Sy intended ¢ o be 
sidevabie Siti after you have published yours ; provided you do not 
a too long, that is ees several hair your. publication of ee 
To enable me to m e this you to put me 
Sounasion of a a tise of yon your Seasphatet wn a ; he English Geedene; 
