JACK'S LETTEES TO WALLICH, 1819-1821. 231 



Nidus germinans i'ormicaruni rubr. vi. t. 55. f. 2. quae Bubia- 

 cege tetraudra. 289 



I look anxiously for the first arrival from Bengal, that I may 

 know what you have been able to do for me towards procuring my 

 Librarial desiderata, 290 particularly Eoemer, Decandolle and the 

 last of the Encyclopaedia Smith : supp : I am not sure that I could 

 not get some of these foreign works but by the way of Batavia, 

 but I do not care to send the commission till I hear from you. I 

 have advice of the dispatch from England of the later vols, of 

 Rees Cycl. but they are not yet arrived. I see by some English 

 advertisements that the work is brought to a close. 



Have you heard yet of George's arrival in Copenhagen, 201 and 

 received an answer from my father? I have not yet heard, none 

 of my letters coming down so late. My best compliments to Mrs. 

 WaUich and believe me always. 



Yours sincerely, 



William Jack. 



Bencoolen, July 3rd, 1821. 

 My dear Wallich. 



The Eobarts and John Bull arrived here some time ago, but 

 neither of them brought a line from you. Since that the Eepulse 

 has arrived direct from England and brought me a letter from 

 Lambert in answer to mine forwarded by you. Strange that I 

 should have later accounts by six months from home than from 

 you in Bengal. He says, he looks for the specimens which you 

 had promised to send, by which I infer that you had not been able 

 to send them early. I fear that in leaving them for you to arrange 

 and dispatch. I threw a greater labour on you than either of us 

 reckoned on, 292 and I shall not be sorry to learn that they are still 

 in your possession, without your having been able to command 

 time to arrange them. I reckon that this letter is not unlikely to 

 find you in Calcutta, and if my supposition in regard to the speci- 

 mens is correct, T would, (when you have leisure, to look over 

 them) wish to make an alteration in the original plan of dispatch, 

 and put you in mind of a few former requests. I must in the 

 first place tell you of some of my new plants and ideas. I believe 

 you know that I had some idea of bringing out a fascicle of plants 

 &c. at home with observations on Malayan Botany: in considering 

 the subject, however I have greatly changed and enlarged my 

 original plan until it has swelled to the design of a work for which 

 I shall go on collecting materials in this country and not publish 



289. Described by Jack in the Transactions of the Linnean Society 

 of London xiv. (1823) p. 123 as Myrmecodia tuberosa. 



290. See notes Xo. 234 and 235 p. 217. 



291. "Wallich 's son, who was being sent to school. Apparently he 

 was sent first to see Wallieh's family in Denmark. 



292. See note 194 recording that plants from Jack were in Lambert's 

 sale. As there stated these plants passed from Lambert 's executors to the 

 dealer Pamplin. Whither they went from Pamplin's shop is unknown: and 

 it is quite impossible to tell if they were specimens sent direct by Jack or 

 specimens left with Wallieh for forwarding. 



H. A. Soc, No. 73. 1916. 



