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wTiting to Acrel says : — " Dryander immediately contradicted this 

 malicious falsehood ; but it gives me much concern that your 

 conduct, wliich has been so honourable, should have made you 

 enemies . . . Between ourselves, it is certainly a disgrace to the 

 University that they sutVered such a treasure to leave them." 



Smith's first notion was to deposit the collections in some 

 spare rooms in tlie British Museum, but decided at last to take a 

 house, where they would be more accessible. He therefore hired 

 apartments in Paradise-row, Chelsea, wdiither the cases were at 

 once conveyed. During the following winter he examined the 

 whole, in company with 8ir Joseph Banks and Dryander, par- 

 ticularly the herbarium, and arranged the whole ; on the title- 

 page of each book or pamphlet he wrute " E. Bibl. propr. Linn. 

 1784." 



In 1786 Smith went abroad, to take his degree of M.D. at 

 Leyden. During his tour he found that the possessor of the 

 Linneau Collections was received with the greatest consideration. 

 He returned in November, 17S7, after seventeen months' ab- 

 sence. 



In 1789 he printed impressions from the woodblocks illus- 

 trating the elder Rudbeck's ' Campus Elysius ' which had escaped 

 the disastrous fire at Upsala, 16 May, L702, and which formed part 

 of the Linnean possessions entitled ' Eeliquse E-udbeckiauie.' la 

 tliat year also he began his ' Plantarum icones hactenus ineditse, 

 pkrumque in herbario Linna^a conservatse,' of which 3 fasciculi 

 came out. His 'Flora Britannica' was an attempt to correct, 

 by means of the types in the Linnean herbarium, some of the 

 errors into which Hudson and later British botanists had fallen. 



Smith remained at Clielseafrom the autumn of 1784 till March 

 1788, when he removed to Great Marlborough Street, the first 

 home of the Linnean Society. Here he remained about six years, 

 when he again transferred his collections to a house at Ham- 

 mersmith, near Lee's nursery. 



In this locality he lived two years, when he was induced by 

 family reasons to tliiuk of fixing his headquarters in his native 

 city. As a first step he sold the Linnean minerals, as the fol- 

 lowing title-page shows : — 



"Linnean Cabinet of Minerals. — A Catalogue of the ge.iuiue 

 and entire Collection of the late celebrated Swedish Natura- 

 list Sir Charles Linne, together with many valuable post- 

 humous additions. (The whole having correct refei'ences 

 to the last improved edition of the ' Systema Naturse ' by 

 Professor Gmelin.) Which will be sold by Auction. By 

 Mr, King, at his Great Room, King Street, Covent Garden, 

 on Tuesday, March 1, 1796, and following day at Twelve 

 o'clock. To be viewed on Monday preceding, and Catalogues 

 then had at the Room." 



In the autumn of 1796 he finally removed the collections to 



