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Edgeworth was glad to hear that Hooker and Thomson have started work on the 'great Indian flora'. He wonders if this will include Burma and Ceylon [Sri Lanka] or if it will be confined to the Indian continent. Edgeworth will send Hooker a packet of plants on the next steamer. They were collected by a young civilian, G.L. Lance and some are very beautiful and may not have been collected by Thomson. Any which are not required by Hooker, the RBG Kew herbarium or Bentham, should be forwarded to Reverend E. Lance of Buckland St Mary, Chard, Somerset, care of Messrs Alexander Fletcher & Co, Kings Arms Yard, Moorgate Street. Edgeworth is also sending Hooker the few additions he has made to his Mallic[?] flora. During the hot season Edgeworth intends to write an account of the botany of the Mooltan [Multan] region which 'curiously connects true Indian with Persian and Levant vegetation' similar to Stock's INDIAN FLORA. Edgeworth has four months' leave and will join Mrs Edgeworth in Simla [Shimla]. Edgeworth would prefer it if the new sanatorium were at Murry [Murree] where the vegetation is more European and less known, but there was a difficulty about houses. Edgeworth would like the commissionership of the area: it has the Salt Range and Murry Hills within its limits; his present post is dreary but not uncomfortable. Edgeworth offers to do anything he can for Hooker at Simla. His notes are at Hooker's service. He has extensive notes on Gramineae: he sent all his specimens of that family to Ruprecht at St Petersburg but got no reply. Edgeworth sends his regards to Hooker's family; he hopes to have the chance of meeting Mrs Hooker. Page 1 of 2.

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Edgeworth was glad to hear that Hooker and Thomson have started work on the 'great Indian flora'. He wonders if this will include Burma and Ceylon [Sri Lanka] or if it will be confined to the Indian continent. Edgeworth will send Hooker a packet of plants on the next steamer. They were collected by a young civilian, G.L. Lance and some are very beautiful and may not have been collected by Thomson. Any which are not required by Hooker, the RBG Kew herbarium or Bentham, should be forwarded to Reverend E. Lance of Buckland St Mary, Chard, Somerset, care of Messrs Alexander Fletcher & Co, Kings Arms Yard, Moorgate Street. Edgeworth is also sending Hooker the few additions he has made to his Mallic[?] flora. During the hot season Edgeworth intends to write an account of the botany of the Mooltan [Multan] region which 'curiously connects true Indian with Persian and Levant vegetation' similar to Stock's INDIAN FLORA. Edgeworth has four months' leave and will join Mrs Edgeworth in Simla [Shimla]. Edgeworth would prefer it if the new sanatorium were at Murry [Murree] where the vegetation is more European and less known, but there was a difficulty about houses. Edgeworth would like the commissionership of the area: it has the Salt Range and Murry Hills within its limits; his present post is dreary but not uncomfortable. Edgeworth offers to do anything he can for Hooker at Simla. His notes are at Hooker's service. He has extensive notes on Gramineae: he sent all his specimens of that family to Ruprecht at St Petersburg but got no reply. Edgeworth sends his regards to Hooker's family; he hopes to have the chance of meeting Mrs Hooker. Page 1 of 2.

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Edgeworth was glad to hear that Hooker and Thomson have started work on the 'great Indian flora'. He wonders if this will include Burma and Ceylon [Sri Lanka] or if it will be confined to the Indian continent. Edgeworth will send Hooker a packet of plants on the next steamer. They were collected by a young civilian, G.L. Lance and some are very beautiful and may not have been collected by Thomson. Any which are not required by Hooker, the RBG Kew herbarium or Bentham, should be forwarded to Reverend E. Lance of Buckland St Mary, Chard, Somerset, care of Messrs Alexander Fletcher & Co, Kings Arms Yard, Moorgate Street. Edgeworth is also sending Hooker the few additions he has made to his Mallic[?] flora. During the hot season Edgeworth intends to write an account of the botany of the Mooltan [Multan] region which 'curiously connects true Indian with Persian and Levant vegetation' similar to Stock's INDIAN FLORA. Edgeworth has four months' leave and will join Mrs Edgeworth in Simla [Shimla]. Edgeworth would prefer it if the new sanatorium were at Murry [Murree] where the vegetation is more European and less known, but there was a difficulty about houses. Edgeworth would like the commissionership of the area: it has the Salt Range and Murry Hills within its limits; his present post is dreary but not uncomfortable. Edgeworth offers to do anything he can for Hooker at Simla. His notes are at Hooker's service. He has extensive notes on Gramineae: he sent all his specimens of that family to Ruprecht at St Petersburg but got no reply. Edgeworth sends his regards to Hooker's family; he hopes to have the chance of meeting Mrs Hooker. Page 1 of 2.