A M.Gay--a French naturalist--has already published in one of the newspapers of this country a similar statement and probably has forwarded to Paris some account; as the fact appears singular would it not be worth while to hand over the specimens to some good lizardologist and comparative anatomist to publish an account of their internal structure?
Do what you think fit.
This letter will go with a cargo of specimens from Coquimbo.

I shall write to let you know when they are sent off.

In the box there are two bags of seeds, one [from the] valleys of the Cordilleras 5,000-10,000 feet high, the soil and climate exceedingly dry, soil very light and stony, extremes in temperature; the other chiefly from the dry sandy Traversia of Mendoza 3,000 feet more or less.

If some of the bushes should grow but not be healthy, try a slight sprinkling of salt and saltpetre.

The plain is saliferous.