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Dr. Smith's Biographical Memoir* 
systematic and physiological turn of mind, was well qualified to 
assist Mr. Bryant in the study he had undertaken. Mr. Rose, 
however, educated in Scotland, was chiefly acquainted with Ray 
and Tournefort. The famous Dr. Garden was his fellow-student, 
who, when settled in America, and engaged in studying the plants 
of that country by the principles of Tournefort, was, as he him- 
self told me, very near giving up the study altogether, for want of 
a more comprehensive system. Fortunately the works of Linnaeus 
came into his hands, and the use he made of them is well known. 
Perhaps about the same period our two Norwich botanists first met 
with the Bhilosophia Botanica. Both of them have often related 
to me, with singular pleasure, the impression they received from 
this book. At first they scarcely knew what opinion to form of 
it. Mr. Rose was not, I believe, without apprehension of some 
lurking heresies and unfounded novelties, hostile to the fame of 
his admired Ray ; but Mr. Bryant, unattached to any previous 
system, and much attracted by the mathematical precision of the 
new book, after reading it again and again, became a decided 
Linn scan, in which his friend soon most heartily coincided with 
him. They procured as soon as possible all the other principal 
writings of Linnaeus, as well as the Flora Anglica of Mr. Hudson. 
Mr. Pitchford, then a student of physic in London, was ac- 
quainted with this gentleman, and by his mediation a corre- 
spondence began between Mr. Hudson and Mr. Rose, which 
lasted as long as the latter lived. Mr.. Pitchford in 1769 settled 
in Norwich, and added much to the strength of its botany. Mr. 
Rose in 1775 published his Elements of Botany, a translation and 
epitome of many of the most useful introductory and theoretical 
writings of Linnaeus. In an appendix to this volume some new 
British plants, found about Norwich by Mr. Pitchford, Mr. Hum- 
frev, and others, are figured and described. Mr. Rose, like Mr. 
Hudson, 
