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this: I mean it only for your sake, and if you do 
not publish yourself, there is nothing in it, except 
the time it would cost you in the exhibition, which 
I suppose you would regulate so as to make it as 
little burthensome as possible. I own, for my own 
particular, that I should be severely mortified if I 
was in London and could not take a peep. 
I have thus offered you a few crude thoughts on 
subjects which I own I am not sufficient judge 
of; and, as I said in the beginning, you will accept 
them for the intention with which they are written, 
and as induced by Mr. Smith your father ; and if 
you can spare leisure to send me a few lines, I shall 
receive them with pleasure. 
I need not ‘say Mr. Rose and the rest of your 
botanical friends here desire their best compliments. 
Dear Sir, 
Your ever obliged and affectionate humble servant, 
J. PITCHFORD. 
I have lately seen specimens of Athamanta Oreo- 
sel. of Hudson, gathered by Mr. Relhan within a 
mile and half of Cambridge, and named by him 
Atham. Libanotis, in which we think him right. 
Mr. Hudson has found plenty of Corrigiola ht- 
toralis on the Devonshire coast. 
Professor J. Sibthorp to Mr. James Edward Smith. 
Dear Sir, Gottingen, Jan. 1, 1785. 
Give me leave to congratulate you upon your 
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