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tany in this country, and that your reputation is 

 too well established to need any recommendation 

 from me. As far as my power extends, I am happy 

 in giving you full authority to take such specimens 

 of plants and flowers as you think requisite for 

 your lectures, together with the use of the lecture- 

 room, at any time or times that may be convenient, 

 — always under the controul of the vice-chancellor, 

 and with a complete reliance on your discretion in 

 the use of the garden. 



Sincerely wishing it may suit your convenience 

 to comply with this my request, 



I remain, dear Sir, 



Your ever faithful Friend, 



Thos. Martyn. 



In a subsequent letter the Professor makes the 

 following observations : 12th April. 



Bradley was never of any university, and had 

 no education : my father admitted only with a view 

 to the professorship, and never took any degree. 

 Vigani, the first professor of chemistry, was an 

 Italian ; Dillenius, as you know, was a German. 

 What was Erasmus and many others who were in- 

 vited to give lectures merely from their learning, 

 independent of any consideration of their opinions 

 in religion, or of their having been educated on the 

 spot. T. Martyn. 



For Professor Martyn Sir James entertained the 

 warmest regard, and their friendship was uninter- 

 rupted through life : mutual good will and good 

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