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get your manuscript transcribed for me? as I ima- 
gine it is not very bulky. Do tell Dryander that 
my very respectable friend Sir Joseph may procure 
many of his destderata at Professor Spielman’s 
auction, which will be in Strasbro’ in April next. I 
dare say you will often see my worthy friend Mr. 
Lightfoot. I beg you will make him my best com- 
pliments, and tell him I have got specimens (almost 
a complete collection) of the land and fresh-water 
shells of Switzerland, which I only wait for an op- 
portunity to send to the Duchess of Portland. Has 
our friend Dickson published his lyncean disco- 
veries? Broussonet tells me of strange wonders (a 
Rosa unifolia from Ispahan) in the Paris garden; 
and Timagine L’Heéritier is almost ready with his 
first Decas of Plant. Rarior. Thunberg has lately 
attempted to throw some light upon the Bohun 
Upas, or Poison-tree, which he imagines to be a 
species of Stderoxylon. Ferber will probably suc- 
ceed to the chair of Bergman. Schreber is writing 
a monography on the genus Aster, and a little dis- 
sertation on the Boletus suaveolens. 
A Flora and Fauna of Lombardy is expected 
from Scopoli, and Professor Lachenal and Saussure 
are collecting the materials for the complete natu- 
ral history of Switzerland. I am here as a prac- 
titioner, making experiments upon the Caryophyl- 
lata, to chase away intermittents; and as our hos- 
pital physician is a pupil of the school of Vienna, 
the Cicuta, Arnica, and Pulsatilla,are in constant use 
—Valeant quantum valere. . .. I look on, but with 
impartial eyes. It is here somewhat colder than in 
