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The Right Honble
Sir Joseph Banks. (Bart.
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Sir
I have the honor to inform You that Mr. J. Bowman, surgeon of the Lord Eldon, has been so obliging as to take charge of a large trunk containing specimens of plants about which I had the pleasure to address Mr Robert Brown on the first of last month. The number of Napaul plants contained in it is not great, yet I flatter myself with the hope that they may as well as some of the others not prove unacceptable to You, in which case I shall feel most happy indeed.
The numbers of plants which my two collectors at (Napaul) have sent to me amounted yesterday to 395, of which I may venture to assert that 300, indeed I may say 350 were new to my great predecessor Dr Roxburgh. They have all been sent to me by post, as precursors to the regular supplies of 8 specimens of each individual plant which are to be sent to me as opportunities may occur. By the return of two boats, which under the authority of the supreme Government, I dispatched with a number