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Kew, March 8, 1768. 
S I R, 
I Received December 5, 1767, of Dodtor Morton of 
the Britifh Mufeum a parcel of acorns preferved in 
wax (the quantity of acorns which I received was 
34); and according to your defire and direction they 
were fowed, as foon as I received them, into a fandy 
light loom. I placed the pots with the acorns under 
a frame, where they remained till January the 28. I 
then took the pots with the acorns out of the frame, 
and placed them near a window, in one of our large 
airy doves, where they have remained ever fincej ac- 
cording to your delire, they (hall be fent to-morrow 
to the Royal Society’s houfe. I think the gentlemen 
of that Honourable Society will be pleafed to fee the 
method of preferving feeds in wax prove fo fucceff- 
fulj as the acorn is one of the word: of feeds to keep 
any time, out of the ground, from perifhing ; and 
the good fuccefs there is from thofe few which 1 
received from Do&or Morton. I am, therefore, of 
the opinion, that, if feeds are found and dry, and care- 
fully put up in the wax, it is the . bed: method 
that has ever been found out to preferve feeds from 
didant countries. 
1 I am, Sir,. 
Your mod; obedient and humble fervant; 
To John Ellis, Efq;, William Aitom. 
Gray s-Inn*. 
N.. B. There are fixteen in one pot, and nine in the 
other, that are already come up, and mod: 
of them from four to fix inches high. 
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