TO DR. R. WIGHT. 



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to publishing on our own account, that is heresy you know. The im- 

 pudence of colonials pretending to publish ! I will not send a line 

 home, except perhaps to continental publications, who certainly do 

 one more justice regarding delay, than the slow English coaches. 



A is a good Botanist : one of the best perhaps, but he has 



not the knack of writing generic characters : neither does he ex- 

 press himself clearly ; he is learned, but not original. B is great- 

 ly inferior. How curious it is to hear the names of C... and D ... 

 in every ones mouth, Brown in no ones. 



I am glad to find the Garden specimens will be acceptable : 

 they ought to be on thei'' way ere this, I have a box on its way 

 from Malacca, but I don't expect much, until I go there again. You 

 shall have a coloured drawing of Aldrovanda. Voigt could never 

 get it, nor I, though I have offered high rewards for it. 



So you write on theological points. I don't understand the Free... 

 Church principle, nor why any separation took place from the C, of 

 England as established by the reformation. I see sufficient ground for 

 her breaking with Rome. By which you will see, that I am a high 

 Churchman. It is a pity people can't agree on these points, but 

 my reading has made me astonished to see really learned men write 

 about incomprehensible things, such as Transubstantiation, imma- 

 culate conception, etc. really such discussions seems to me profane ! 

 and yet done by Churchmen, After all, give me Nature, where study 

 does not lead to irreconcileable differences, but the unity of opinion. 



Bot. Garden, May 8, 1844. 



Have you any Phajnixes down about you, or have you ever ob- 

 served them ? My own materials are indifferent, and made worse by 

 the impossibility of relying here on a single name of a single plant. 

 I suspect there are at least two species under P. acaulis. Could you 

 recommend me to any obliging person who would send me speci- 

 mens of P. farinifera. 



I have just finished off the second section : containing Coryphae 

 3, Livistona 2, Licuala 8, Chamaerops 3, Phoenix 4, and now I go on 

 to Arecinse, in which I am very rich. You ought to have many 

 down in your wet Southern jungles. 



What is Roxburghs Capparis heteroclita ?; really it is a curious 



