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Vale, vir nobilissime, et amicorum amico D». 
D°. Engelhardt salutes. 
Nobilissimi tui nominis 
Cultor observantissimus, 
J. G. AcREL. 
N.B. Ab Upsalia usque ad pontem navalem Lon- 
dinensem, collectiones per mare transferri possunt, 
adeo ut facilis et quassationi expers sit earum 
transportatio. | 
Mr. James Edward Smith to his Father. 
Honoured Sir, London, April 23, 1784. 
Yours of the 12th made me very happy. I hope 
we shall have no reason to alter our sentiments 
about the step I have set. As it is now pretty gene- 
rally known, I hear more of the opinion of people 
on the subject than I did before, and am very much 
encouraged by them. I thought it a piece of respect 
due to my old botanical friends to inform them of 
my purchase before they heard of it by any other 
means ; I therefore wrote lately to Messrs. Wood- 
ward, Bryant, and Pitchford, to tell them, and de- 
sired the latter to inform Mr. Crowe and Rose. I 
mentioned particularly that my medical studies were 
to go on as before. 
The collection comes every inch of the way from 
Upsal by water. 
Your dutiful Son, 
J. E. Smirn. 
