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also left the following instructions written on the same melan- 

 choly occasion, regarding the disposal of his collections and 

 papers. 



All specimens of whatsoever sort or kind to be presented and 

 given to the Honorable E. I. Company. Vide documents enumerated 

 below. 



1st. A list of Collections left at the Export Warehouse, Calcutta. 



2nd. Collections now in my possession at Malacca, no list made out. 



All Drawings and Manuscripts relating to Natural History also to 

 become the property of the Hon. E. I. C. 



The collections are arranged chiefly from the countries in which 

 they were made, and each bundle is, or was, marked outside with 

 the natural family and the name of the country. To almost each 

 of the collections there is a rough volume of MSS. containing 

 numbers tallying with the No. marked on the specimens : many 

 other tickets also give besides additional localities, (thus all the 

 localities of the Affghan collections, many of the duplicates of which 

 have lately been sent to Mr. Lemann,) are to be found in the 

 Affghan MSS. and an additional vol. of MSS. gives barometrical 

 heights and astronomical observations ; so are Cossiah, Assam, 

 Bootan, Mergui, Mishmay, &c. but there are some general col- 

 lections which were commenced to be arranged generally, and some 

 of the Natural Families in which I was most interested, as " Tern- 

 stromiacese," "Ericiniae," " Menispermacese," " Vacciniese," are also 

 arranged generally ; in such cases the locality of each species of speci- 

 men is marked in pencil on the cover of the sheet. The collections of 

 Mosses and Ferns duplicated (the last of which are now with Sir 

 Wm, Hooker and Mr. Lemann) are among the most complete, and 

 I trust that the Honorable Court will allow them to be placed for 

 elucidation with Sir Wm. Hooker and Mr. Wm. Harvey, of Trinity 

 College, Dublin. 



The collections in spirits of wine in five boxes, contain flowers 

 and often fruit of almost all the interesting kinds ; this was done to 

 afford good opportunities of studying them afterwards, as the constant 

 travelling during which most of the collections were made, did not 

 admit of their minute examination in the fresh state ; they will re- 

 quire fresh spirits, and in most cases fresh arrangement. 



