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I shall transmit to you on our arrival in the river, lists of all my Collections and trust you will be so good as settle it, with the Custom house, that they may not be tumbled about or examined till they are landed at their destined places, and in whatever manner the business between me & Capt Vancouver is to be settled I could wish for their safety to be at liberty to attend them in person, if the Lords of the Admty will permit it.
I ought perhaps to have sent my collection of seeds by land on our arrival here & had I known that we were to remain so long I should certainly have done it as I am confident that by that means they might be at least a month sooner in the ground.
I shall, I hope, still be able to add some live & ornamental plants to His Majesty's Collection at Kew, though not near so many as I expected on our leaving St. Helena. One of them is a most beautiful Pine from the Southern