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act of finishing. In a little shabby apartment in 
the Benedictins Anglois, lies poor James II., under 
a rusty black pall and tattered escutcheons, waiting 
to be carried back to England! So very deplorable 
a spectacle softened my contempt into pity. Iam 
quite well, and in constant entertainment. 
Your ever dutiful son, 
J. E. Smitu. 
Mr. Dryander* to J. E.. Smith, Paris. 
Dear Sir, London, Sept. 5, 1786. 
I am very much obliged to you for both your 
letters. All the parcels which came with the letter 
from Leyden were sent as directed. 
Far be it from us to encumber the library with 
* « Mr. Jonas Dryander, a Swedish naturalist of eminent talents, 
and a distinguished pupil of the great Linneus, was born in 1748. 
He was domesticated under the roof of Sir Joseph Banks as his 
librarian in 1782, and continued in that situation as long as he 
lived. Mr. Dryander also held the offices of librarian to the 
Royal and Linnzan Societies. He was one of the first founders 
of the latter in 1788, and took a principal interest in all its con- 
cerns, especially in drawing up its Jaws and regulations, when 
this Society was incorporated by charter in 1802. He moreover 
fulfilled the duties of a very active vice-president till the time 
of his decease in October 1810, in the 63rd year of his age. 
** The study in which this most acute and correct man found 
ample scope for the exercise of his talents, was bibliography. 
His Catalogus Bibliotheca Historico-Naturalis Josephi Banks is 
a model for all future writers in this line; but a model rather 
calculated to check than to excite imitation. A work so inge- 
nious in design and so perfect in execution can scarcely be pro- 
duced in any science.” J. E. S.— Supplement to the Encyclopedia 
Britannica. 
