
          Chemistry) is working daily
in the Gardens at their west
Indian, Himalayan & Thibetian [Tibetan]
collections. In a few
days Dr. Wight joins them
here with all his accumulated
collections of the whole
Madras Peninsula. Our
Garden alone would be
worth your coming to see,
with our great Palm House
the New Victoria Houses,
&c &c &c & our "Museum of
Economic Botany." A new
Museum is to be built here
forthwith & great rooms
for my own Library & Herbarium 
adjoining my house.

Part II of Plantae Wightianeae
for me & my friends arrived 4
days ago. His plants are
capital. It is delightful to
me to see the U.S. going ahead
as it its literally does in botany
& scientific surveys. It gratifies
me as much as if it were my own

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country. Accept for yourself & all your family our warmest
regards. I am your much attached & affe [affectionate] W.J. Hooker.

        