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I exist in this world. If I am called on to bid adieu 

 to my wife, to plants, and to you, let my books and 

 my plants be admitted to your use. Preserve them 

 in memory of a true and cordial friend, who dying 

 with this assurance will be happier even in Paradise. 

 English Botany pleases me much. The motto is 

 admirable, and the more so as original. Adieu, my 

 good friend ! May Heaven preserve you, and con- 

 tinue your health ! 



Your very affectionate, 



E. Davall. 



Mr. Davall to «/. E. Smith. 



Orbe, April 30, 1791. 



Having learnt, my very dear friend, that a voitu- 

 rier of my neighbourhood sets off on Monday, and 

 hoping him more honest than his brethren, I ea- 

 gerly embrace the opportunity of writing a few lines 

 in haste, which accompany a little barrel of Cha- 

 mouny honey, that I wish you to taste. The bees 

 who have made it feed chiefly on Pinus Larix. 



The Anemone sylvestris, which Curtis's Magazine 

 says often becomes troublesome in gardens, is, alas ! 

 one of the greatest desiderata in mine. — Pray let it 

 be Pota?nogeton ohtusum. If you knew me suffi- 

 ciently well, my good friend, you would have di- 

 rected it so without even consulting me, who wish 

 for nothing so much as to be guided in all matters 

 by you, and whose highest ambition is (however un- 

 worthy perhaps) to exist as your and the Linnaean 

 Society's delegate in this country. All my views 



