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what the clergy are fond of, and by that means 
hope to make my peace with him. Mr. Marsham 
I will fight in another manner. He has a book in 
hand*; andI have matter in my head. At Coventry 
there is no conversation, you know, consequently 
no communication: I shall therefore soon settle 
matters with him. 
Fabricius is in London, and much wishes to see 
you, but will certainly leave us before your return; 
he is goingthrough my drawings, to correct, amend, 
and add to a Mantissa that he has now in hand; yet 
I have more than he will be able to accomplish in 
the time he has limited to stay. Iam sorry you 
are from home for your own sake; he is a man | 
that must please ;—open, free, easy, candid, unaf- 
fected ; in short J like him, and think yow must. 
Marsham has been at Dunmow in Essex this fort- 
night, consequently I have heard nothing of Younge. 
With every tender of affectionate esteem, 
Iam most sincerely yours, 
W. Jones. 
Dr. Younge to J. E.. Smith, Geneva. 
My dear Sir, Paris, August 5, 1787. 
Broussonet has been extremely obliging to ine 
since my return; he has introduced me at the Aca- 
demy, and at the Society of Agriculture. I suspect 
the distribution of medals has ceased in the latter, 
* Entomologia Britannica, of which the first volume, including 
the Coleoptera, was published in 1502; but no more ever ap- 
peared. 
