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Oct. 9
A series of circumstances which would give you more trouble than pleasure in the recital have prevented me till now from answering your last Favor which I am sorry for but could not prevent
I am glad to hear that Dombeys herbarium is safe had I receivd any Previous information of your intention of bringing it over I should have sufferd much anxiety at the idea of its being trusted to the mercy of the fickle element over which it must has been transported
On the subject of the geranie I must Freely tell you that as the examination of the internal structure of sleats fructification necessarily breaks or damages the specimens it is reserve to myself the privelege of doing it & hitherto I have not given leave to any one to describe for publication the new plant which I have not without Labor & expence collected for myself but Sir as the arrangement & writing of your own Prodromus must