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their cellular membranes different or indistinct, he 

 calls imperfect plants ; and his perfect plants are 

 again subdivided by their cotyledons, but somewhat 

 different from Jussieu, as he calls the dicotyledonous 

 plants of Jussieu plantes cotyledond>es ; and the mo- 

 nocotyledonous, plantes acotyledonees. This is al- 

 together so new, and so microscopic, and so difficult, 

 that I doubt not but it will be very generally adopted, 

 and that instead of quoting Linn, or Juss. we shall 

 shortly cite Hoffm., unless some great reformer 

 should start up and put him out of fashion. 



I have not been idle of late, having been employed 

 in devising a mode of putting an effectual end to the 

 African slave trade, as at present 



" We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it." 



I am also looking into the state of the arts during 

 the middle ages, for a memoir of which I have good 

 materials. 



•W. Roscoe. 



Sir J. E. Smith to Mr. Roscoe. 



My dear Friend, Norwich, Sept. 7, 1812. 



Be not alarmed at seeing a letter from me so 

 soon after my last. We have been spending ten 

 days at Holkham, and I write now at the earnest 

 desire of Mr. Coke, to try to persuade you to come 

 and see him and us. He says you have given him 

 some hopes, but have as yet only disappointed him. 

 Now I can conceive nothing more delightful than 



