NATURAL PROBUCTIONS OF THE EAST INDIES, ^\ 



Malay hemp, called calooee, I have received your letter of Myrobalan 

 the 7th of March, intended to overtake me at Portsmouth, ^ 

 and I thank you for the pains you have taken about my 

 myrobalan galls. If the value of them is, by this experi- 

 ment, ascertained, I shall the less regret the great loss I 

 have sustained by them. You will be able to learn this 

 from Mr. Desanges, and let me know. 



You have now learned how to get a treasury order for Extract of tlie 

 any thing I may send the Society, I shall therefore be en- ^"'^ * 

 con raged to trouble you oftener, and just now with four 

 pounds and a half of the extract of gaub fruit, (EMBRYOpt 

 TERis GLUTiNiFERA, Coromandel Plants, Vol.1, No.70j, 

 which is at this instant in perfection, and the extract is 

 made with cold water. The former, which by the above 

 mentioned letter I learn you were about to receive, was 

 made with hot water. The fruit to make this quantity of 

 extract, four pounds and a half, cost sixpence, and the ex- 

 pense of making may be as much ; this information will 

 the better enable the Society to ascertain whether or not it 

 can be useful to tanners or others in England. The rate 

 of freight you can better determine than I can here. 



The little box is not quite full with the extract. I have Calooeehemp. 

 filled it with calooee hemp, the produce of the second cut- 

 ting of the saiue plants in two months, so I ViHj safely 

 conclude four crops or cuttings may be had annually. 



I am, &c, 



W. ROXBURGH. 



Culculla, Nov. 3, 1807. 



My dear Sir, 



To convince you, that I have not forgot the Society nor 

 you, I send you, above, copies of two letters which I 

 have written to you since my return to this place. I also 

 enclose a letter from the Secretary of the Asiatic Society, 

 to convince you that I have been a faifTf.l agent for esta- 

 blishing connections between the two Societies. 



If you value our labours as we do ourselves, the original 

 Calcutta price of each volume being fifty rupees, or half 



crowns. 



