No. 4

With reference to your Predecessor's despatch No. 45 of the 3rd of
November last I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a letter
with its enclosure from the Honble Jas. R. Howard on the subject of the
Douglas Pine, from which you will learn that it is not the wish of the
Commissioners of Woods and Forests that any more seeds or cones should be
collected for that office until the result of those recently sent home
has been ascertained.