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of useful & ornamental plants for the Residency and Rajah of Katmandu, about two months ago, I will thus receive a large supply both of growing plants and specimens of which I shall lose no time transmitting to You all what I may hope will prove welcome.
I have not been able to resist the temptation of publishing some observations on some of the above mentioned treasures and those from the eastern frontiers of Bengal. They will form a quarto volume for which the engravings are in a course of being commenced upon. Mr [Hovill?], the artist who accompanied Lord Amherst , has kindly undertaken to conduct the etching of them, and has to my great joy succeeded in making a good etching ground modified according to the nature of this climate and our want of the requisite Asphaltum. At all events I trust I shall soon be able to present You, Sir with some engravings which are to illustrate several papers on the subject of these plants, which have been laid and will be soon laid before the Asiatic Society. Among these latter are two Campanula, two primulae, a Carlusa!!, Two Convallaria, of which one