Dedication to the First Edition. 
TO JAMES EDWARD SMITH, M.D. F.R.S. 
PRESIDENT OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, 
’ AND PROFESSOR OF THE LINNEAN COLLECTION. 
RET TRI Re I NT 
SIR, 
Not only Friendship and Gratitude, but 
Propriety induce me to dedicate this Volume to You: for, as the 
first Volume of this Work, which relates both to Medicine and 
Botany, has been honoured by the Patronage of the President of 
the Royal College of Physicians, I am happy to find a Botanical 
. Patron, to do equal Honour to the second Volume, in the President 
of the Linncan Society. 
I have the honour to be — 
With the utmost respect and esteem, - 
our faithful Servant, 
Wu. WOODVILLE. 
PENTONVILEE, 
February 20th, 1792. 
