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left Fonthill. His letter, I may say, cost me 1/. as., 

 as he expressed himself all in raptures that De Can- 

 dolle had published Part I. of a new work, entitled 

 Prodromus Syst. Nat. Regni Vegetabilis. I sent 

 for it immediately ; and though I cannot but admire 

 the pains he has taken, yet I lament that he did not 

 go on with his Systema Pegetabile, which probably 

 now I shall never see, as, if I understand him right, 

 he intends to publish another volume, first, of his 

 Prodromus, 



The chemical names of medicines are so much 

 altered, that I dare not send for a dose of Epsom 

 salts, or some calomel, without looking into the 

 Pharmacopoeia Lond. to see by what name I am to 

 send a note to the druggist. The new London 

 Pharmacopoeia has just been put into my hands. I 

 could not help observing that they took the hint 

 that if that barbarous word Elettaria should be 

 abolished, that you would recommend Matonia to 

 be substituted for the Cardamom. 



In the last Dispensatory, the Cantharides were 

 called Lytt(E) but now the old name is restored; how 

 far that is proper I must not pretend to question. 

 Three species of Cinchona, the cordifolia, lancifolia, 

 and oblongifolia, are still continued. Camphor is 

 still said to be the produce of Law*us Camphora, and 

 " concretum sui generis sublimatione paratum." Mr. 

 Miller always told me that all the best camphor was 

 from very large timber trees at Sumatra, sometimes 

 (according to the age of the trees) either in a fluid 

 or concrete state. The whole trade of making cam- 

 phor is in the hands of the Dutch. Do they make 



