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Dear Henry

I have just turned up a dirty old pamphlet which however may have some interest with regard to your experiments –

I hear there are parcels coming to me from Bertoloni ¹ – & I have received three baskets or rather cane cages of Orchideæ from Guatemala

Y^rs
W F Strangways

As I sent you Pine seed from Persia ² to Newcastle ³ so I send some from Cuba to Birmingham ⁴ arrived today –

How come you to let M^r Chance ⁵ into your Mathematical Committee?

Fanny ⁶ has found Monotropa Hipopitys near Blandford