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Mr. Woodward to J. E.. Smith, Paris. 
Dear Sir, Bungay, August 13, 1786. 
I was very much flattered by your early attention 
to my request of letting me hear from you. It 
seems very strange that our Caucalis daucozdes 
should be inserted a second time under the name 
of Conium Royeni: Linneus certainly did not see 
the specimen, and named it after the description, or 
possibly merely on the authority of Van Royen, 
without any description. Did not Burman put you 
in mind of Hudson? I do not mean any reflexion 
on the latter, whose abilities, when unclouded by 
arrogance and self-sufficiency, I admire: but that 
difficulty of access to his herbarium and professo- 
rial dignity which you complain of, seem strongly 
to mark a similitude of character between the Am- 
sterdam professor and our author. I must con- 
gratulate you on finishing the business of the degree, 
and the being now completely Dr. Smith; though 
I do not apprehend the business had anything very 
- terrificin it. I shall be much flattered with the sight 
of your inaugural dissertation : you speak of it in 
very modest terms; nevertheless I am sure I shall 
find something to admire in the style and manner 
of the composition. This and the other primztie* 
of your pen will be laid by as choice memorials of 
our early friendship; and should it please God to 
* These were, Reflexions on the Study of Nature; and A Dis~ 
sertation on the Sexes of Plants; published in 1785 and 1786. 
They will be enumerated among Sir James's works in a subse- 
quent chapter. 
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