Jameson encloses some botanical notes that he intended to accompany a collection he is preparing. However, as this collection will go via the Cape it will not reach Hooker for some time. The yellow fever has finally disappeared but Jameson feels no inclination to return to Guayaquil. Jameson explains his reasons for wanting to proffer his services in the cause of botany, by collecting living plants, seeds and dried specimens. His rate would be £2 per hundred dried specimens, provided 12 subscribers could be found. His time is now entirely at his disposal and he is never so happy as when he is exploring. The French Consul, M. Mendeville leaves Quito in the next fortnight and by him Jameson sends his portrait and 12 or 13 drawings of Orchideae. Page 1 of 2.