
          Edinb. [Edinburgh] April 10th 1824

My dear Sir

I have to acknowledge the
receipt of a parcel of plants along with the
Diploma with which I have been honored
by the Lyceum and for which I have returned
a grateful answer to the Secretary.
I [lament] to say that your plants were
every one of [insert: them] totally destroyed by the sea
water—which had penetrated to the very
heart of the parcel. the 1st part of your
work which you had also the kindness to
send me is so much injured as to be
scarcely legible the water having penetrated
quite through it. I regret the loss of many
of the plants especially the grasses as
they would have been the authentic plants
of your excellent work.

I have just published the first attempts
towards a Flora of the immediate vicinity 
of Edinburgh. It is a small thing compared
with your undertaking, but has cost me
trouble enough in consequence of having had

        