TALBOT2930

Glasgow.
June 30

My dear Sir

I am extremely obliged to you for the two kind letters, one cont^g £7. 1. 6 ¹ which settles your account with M^r Drummond; ² and the other cont^g an offer of some specimens ³ from the Ionian Islands. For these I shall be very thankful: & if left at any time with M^r Hunneman, 9, Queen street, Soho,⁴ they will reach me very safely.

Thank you, too, for forwarding my packages to Italy, & for the three Fasciculi of Bertoloni’s work, ⁵ which I think admirable. By it I was able to determine an Irish Scirpus new to Britain, S. Savii, hitherto only described as a native of Italy. I have given a figure of it in the Supplement to English Botany ⁶ very lately.

I would have done myself the pleasure of writing to you before, but my time has been so much occupied with my Lectures, that I have scarcely been able to think of any thing else. I have been preparing for them a very large set of new drawings on an Atlas folio size. I have a month’s more employment yet with my Lectures.

Please to let the enclosed be put [illegible deletion] into the 2^dy Post ⁷.

Most faithfully Yours
W. J. Hooker

Part III of Bot^l. Journal ⁸ is just finished. I have been continuing the list of Cuming’s ⁹ plants there.