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viving original members of the Linnaean Society. 

 He writes to me that he is two years older than the 

 Bishop. I was prevented by the death of my wife's 

 brother, and my own illness, from going to London 

 this year. I suffer severely from rheumatism, which 

 has for three weeks past affected my eye, — the same 

 which suffered from erysipelas twenty-five years ago, 

 and frequently since, becomes cloudy, weak, and 

 painful from cold : it is now very troublesome, so 

 as to hinder my usual pursuits. 



I have lately received from Kent the true Swiss 

 Ophrys arachnitis figured in Haller, — a great ac- 

 quisition to our Flora. 



Believe me, dear Sir, &c. 



J. E. Smith. 



