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happy you received the seeds and specimens safe and I hope those mentioned in the accompanying letter will likewise be delivered they were sent from Port Jackson in the Policy, Capt. Foster. I think some of them are new, and also many of those I now send. When the season for collecting seeds commences I shall not fail in procuring as many as possible. They will be a great acquisition as there is little doubt of their standing the Winter in England of that you will judge by the state of the thermometer during our Winter, which I inclose.
Specimens of the Wood and of what I consider a new one, will I hope be acceptable. The skin of a new animal which I sent to Sydney to be forwarded by the Governor to you will I hope arrive safe, since which I have procured a Female sent by this conveyance the Bones complete, and one of her young in spirits, with some other subjects of natural history. Should the one prove curious any quantity can be had as the Hills near this are chiefly composed of it. By the Buffalo which is daily expected and anxiously looked for, I shall send to Port Jackson all