MEMOIR 



CORRESPONDENCE 



THE LATE 



SIR JAMES EDWARD SMITH, M.D. 



TELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON J 



MEMBER OF THE ACADEMIES OF 



STOCKHOLM, UPSAL, TURIN, LISBON, PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, ETC. ETC. 



THE IMPERIAL ACAD. NATURE CURIOSORUM, 



AND 



THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT PARIS J 



HONORARY MEMBER OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON ; 



AND 



PRESIDENT OF THE LINN^AN SOCIETY. 



EDITED 



By LADY SMITH. 



" How delightful and how consolatory it is, among the disappointments and 



anxieties of life, to observe Science, like Virtue, retaining its relish to the last !" 



Sketch of a Tour on the Continent, vol. ii. p. 60. 



PRINTED FOR 



LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN. 

 PATERNOSTER ROW. 



1832. 



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