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Art. 'KlY. ^Notice respecting Dr Wallich’^ Journey in Ne^ 
paul; being an Extract of a Letter from Wallich, 
Superintendant of the Botanical Garden near Calcutta^ to 
Dr Francis Hamilton. Dated^ Nepaul^ ^Sth March, 
1821 
I Arrived here on the 21st of December last, and hope to 
remain until the 1st of November. I am accompanied by a 
noble establishment of all my painters, some good gardeners 
from Calcutta, and several of my apprentices, and have obtain- 
ed permission to investigate the whole valley in which the capi- 
tal is situated, together with all the mountains immediately 
bounding it. You may rest assured, that I shall avail myself 
of the opportunity in the best manner I can, when I tell you, 
that nearly two hundred baskets, (each a man‘’s load,) have been 
already sent down to the Botanical Garden at Calcutta, filled 
with roots and parasitical plants, mostly packed in moss. This, 
together with ten immense chests of specimens, (partly, how- 
ever, what had been dried last year by your old plant collector 
Bharat Singha,) will gain me credit for being at least a to- 
lerable pioneer. 
Many specimens of animals have likewise gone down to Lady 
Hastings, who transmits them to the Edinburgh University, 
and to General Hardwicke, who has already sent a drawing, de- 
scription, and some skins of a majestic Buceros to the Linn^an 
Society. He informs me, that it is the Buceros Ecavatus of 
Shaw. I have also sent down a capital skin, with the head at- 
tached, of the true Ovis Ammon, or Argali, (Hamilton’s Ne- 
paul^ p. 94.) and a drawing of a noble large tail-less deer? which 
General Hardwicke takes to be the Cervus Pygargus. The 
animal itself we have alive, with a number of beautiful birds, 
and a male and female wild goat, which probably is altogether 
undescribed, unless you have seen it here 
You would no doubt be surprised to see how much the people 
here, and the valley itself, have been improved, during the 20 
* An Account, by Dr Wallich, of the botanical discoveries made in Nepaul, 
previous to his arrival there, will be found in this Journal, vol. i. p. 376. 
*|- I have not. — F. H, 
