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Dr. Bostock to Sir «/. JE, Smith. 



Dear Sir, Liverpool, January 26, 180G. 



I thank you for your letter containing the speci- 

 mens of native Camphor. At present the nature of 

 the substance appears to me quite incomprehensi- 

 ble. I have not yet performed all the experiments 

 upon it that I propose to do. You will be happy 

 to hear that our worthy friend Shepherd is well, and 

 continues his exertions, with his usual success, in 

 the garden. Even since you left us we have got 

 some considerable additions to our collection. It 

 would, I am confident, give you great concern to 

 observe the unprincipled attack which is made upon 

 Leo X. in the Critical Review, — not that it will af- 

 fect the equanimity, or perhaps the reputation of 

 the author ; but it is painful to observe that such a 

 spirit of illiberality can be sanctioned, by being ad- 

 mitted into the pages of one of our most popular 

 periodical works. Surely the writer must be a 

 stranger to our friend ; it would be impossible for 

 any one who knew him to treat him so ungene- 

 rously. 



Believe me your faithful Friend, 



J. Bostock. 



Sir J . E. Smith to Mr. Roscoe. 



My dear Sir, Norwich, April 2, 1S0G. 



I hope you have not been uneasy for the fate of 

 your Essay on Monandrian Plants. I now sit down 

 to thank you for your letter of the 1st of March, 



