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that I may not rer Gan pee with you. We have ihely 
ove was selowledge by L Héritier i in a letter to D 
ander dated 14 May, 17 788: ‘* Je repondrai incessament & la derniere 
lettre de M. Banks, 4 qui vous pouvez dire que les nouvelles qu'il 
m’a écrites me sont des plus agréables.”’ 
From this date till Sept. 1790 L’Héritier corresponded fre 
quently and cordially, largely about his works, giving details whick, 
as already shown, Dryander worked into the Hortus Kewensis. 
James Britten. 
B. B. Woopwarp. 
FRASER’S CATALOGUE, 1796. 
In this Journal for 1899, pp. 485-7, we reprinted one of the 
Catalogues issued by John Fraser, the nurseryman of Chelsea. The 
reasons for so doing were set forth at some length in the introduc- 
pendant to the list written by Nuttall for Fraser which was pub- 
lished in Pittonia, ii. 116-119 Aspe 2, Professor E. L. Greene. 
The list reprinted in 1899 is n ; internal evidence sug- 
— that it was issued on Fraser's mee from his fourth journey, 
which took place in 1790. The one now reprinted stands second in 
nde Se 1 order, coming between the preceding and the one 
sued by Fraser’s sons in 1811 and reprinted by Prof. Greene. The 
dito of the fourth journey is definitely ascertained from a MS. note 
on our copy of the plate of Thalia dealbata by James Sowerby, pub- 
ed by Fraser in 1794, which runs :—* Discover’d si in ca 
Tithe’ in North America, in the Sent 1790, by John Fraser, 
oa Chelsea.” The general recognition of this excellent ginte 
5 as a-publication of the name is of interest, as it was issued without 
any kind of description. 
The present list is reprinted verbatim et literatim. ' 
* The transcriber had written “ Rhetzia,” which was subsequently corrected 
to sr but the plant meant was of course Retzia—Rhexia does not oceur at 
the Ca 
ieuanas or Borany.—Vor. 43. [Nov. 1905.] Qa 
