If you think it worth your while to examine any of them I shall be very glad of some mineralogical information, especially on any numbers between 1 and 254 which include Santiago rocks.

By my catalogue I shall know which you may refer to.

As for my plants, "pudet pigetque mihi." All I can say is that when objects are present which I can observe and particularise about, I cannot summon resolution to collect when I know nothing.
It is positively distressing to walk in the glorious forest amidst such treasures and feel they are all thrown away upon one.

My collection from the Abrolhos is interesting, as I suspect it nearly contains the whole flowering vegetation--and indeed from extreme sterility the same may almost be said of Santiago.

I have sent home four bottles with animals in spirits, I have three more, but would not send them till I had a fourth.