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nomenclature, through all the classes from Mam- 
malia to Lapides, which will be ready for the press 
by your return. I should have liked to have given it 
to the public “ By a Fellow of the Linnzan Society.” 
Whatever you do, take care of your health, and use 
your time with courage and activity. Above all, 
believe me ever your most sincere friend, 
SAMUEL GOODENOUGH. 
I depend upon hearing of your motions to the 
southward, and your successes. When you come 
towards the Mediterranean, perhaps you may find 
it worth your while to think of conchology. At 
Leghorn there may be an A%gyptian correspon- 
dence carried on; a step towards getting Origanum 
egyptiacum. 
Rev. Dr. Goodenough to J. E. Smith, at the Mar- 
quis Hippolito Durazzo's, Genoa. 
My dear Sir, Ealing, Nov. 3, 1786. 
Iam so far glad at finding that the prodigious 
loss which we have lately sustained has made its 
way to you, as it saves me from the pain of men- 
tioning it to you. A better child, I verily believe, 
never lived: my very heart doated upon her, not from 
any weak or irrational motive, but from her good- 
ness, her love of improvement, her duty to us, and 
her actual attainments in every thing which we 
wished her to apply to. Our grief was highly en- 
riched by observing the whole neighbourhood in 
