I am now almost wholly <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />taken up with Botany, chiefly <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Indian & Australian & hope soon <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to commence the distribution of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the Indian collections of which <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />a splendid set goes to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005221 https://www.geonames.org/2950159">Berlin</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />containing every-thing of which<lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946">D<hi rendition="#sup">r</hi> Thomson</persName> & I have duplicates: <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />we are also about to publish<lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /> <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">a</del> <add place="across">the</add> </subst> first volume of the <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="d7bb5001-f0a4-49d9-bb50-01f0a4d9d9dc" corresp="#bdf06766-cd06-485b-b067-66cd06e85b88" type="editorialNote">Flora <lb />Indica</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="bdf06766-cd06-485b-b067-66cd06e85b88" corresp="#d7bb5001-f0a4-49d9-bb50-01f0a4d9d9dc" type="editorial"><bibl corresp="https://edition-humboldt.de/VNWTINB4">Hooker, J. D./Thomson 1855.</bibl></note>, with a very large <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />introduct<subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">ion</del> <add place="across">ory</add> </subst> Essay on the History <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of Indian Botany, Botanical<lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& Physical Geography of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">India</placeName>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& the division of the country <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />into Botanical Provinces, & of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Flora into its constituent<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="41v" /> <fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folNum">14</fw>elements. <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003944 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117351946">D<hi rendition="#sup">r</hi> Thomson</persName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />returns to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">India</placeName> in <date xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" when="1855-02" calendar="#gregorian">February</date> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& takes charge of the <orgName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020399 https://d-nb.info/gnd/2020025-0">Botanical <lb />Gardens</orgName> at <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0016218 https://www.geonames.org/1275004">Calcutta</placeName>, thus <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />becoming the successor of<lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001103 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117598275">Roxburgh</persName>, <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006224 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117126314">Wallich</persName>, & <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="intralinear">of</add> <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020756 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117498246">Falconer</persName>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />who returns early next year <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131">England</placeName>.