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pamphlet must be, I am sure, a man of an equally 

 amiable character and sound understanding. 



Your compliments have been presented to the 

 botanic circle at Soho Square, and I am charged to 

 send you theirs. To see you again in London, happy 

 and in good health, is the constant wish of your 

 hearty friend, 



Joseph Correa de Serra. 



The writer recollects with much pleasure the 

 Abbe Correa's visits to herself and Sir James, when 

 they resided for a short time at Hammersmith in 

 the spring of 1796. She was prepared to admire this 

 engaging foreigner, and was not disappointed. No- 

 thing could exceed the hilarity of his spirits, and 

 the lustre of his dark intelligent eye, while in a sort 

 of poetic rapture he talked of the charms of nature, 

 and of flowers in particular, and especially of the 

 satisfaction it would afford his mind to have a plant 

 named after him. This he declared was the lasting 

 honour he desired. He had witnessed the events 

 of the French Revolution, had seen rank and for- 

 tune overthrown, escutcheons effaced, and names 

 obliterated ; — while in this mode of perpetuating an 

 honourable fame, nothing human could destroy it ; 

 the remembrance of him would be renewed every 

 season with the revolving year, as long as the world 

 endured ! 



His friend had the pleasure of dedicating to him 

 a beautiful genus, native of New Holland, of which 

 three species only are known: that called Corrcea 

 virens is figured in Exotic Botany. How much 



