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1835, made trial of more than five hundred cases 
to and from various parts of the globe, with 
great variety of success, hut have uniformly 
found, wherever your own directions were strictly 
attended to — that is, when the cases were kept 
the whole voyage in the full exposure to the 
light upon deck, and care taken to repair the 
glass immediately in cases of accident — the plants 
have arrived in good condition ; hut we have 
never found this so well attended to as in those 
cases with which we have been favoured by your 
friends, and particularly by Capt. Mallard, of the 
“ Kinnear indeed amongst all we have sent out 
or received, none have arrived in such good order 
as those brought by this gentleman. I wish we 
had more that possessed his love for Natural 
History, and would take the same care which he 
has done, as we should not then have to deplore 
the number of importations totally ruined, even 
in your cases, simply for the want of the light 
of day, and these too under the care of captains 
who engage that they shall be kept upon deck, 
when the moment we are out of sight, they stow 
them away below, and they are never more 
thought of until their arrival : from experience 
in this mode of transportation we are enabled 
perfectly to see by their state whether they have 
been placed properly or not; for we find that 
