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saints; I envy you the former. Oh for Orchis 
abortiva and coriophora ! Tam glad you leave Pavia 
before your tract on the Sexes of Plants comes out: 
Spallanzani would assassinate you I fear. 
Sir Joseph Banks to J. E. Smith, Paris. 
Dear Doctor, Soho Square, August 15, 1787. 
Botany flourishes here most abundantly. The 
Queen studies diligently under Aiton, and to much 
purpose. The ship which we are sending to Ota- 
heite to bring home the bread-fruit to the West 
Indies, will bring many plants from thence. The 
garden at St. Vincent's flourishes ; a new one is 
established at Bengal, and an intercourse prepared 
between the two, by the medium of England; and 
probably another will soon be established at Madras. 
Swartz is the best botanist I have seen since So- 
lander. I have hopes of getting him out to supply 
Keenig’s place inIndia. In short, botany may raise 
its head, and I think it wd. 
Believe me, dear Sir, 
Most faithfully yours, 
JosEPH Banks. 
J. EF. Smith to his Father. 
Honoured Sir, Geneva, August 27, 1787. 
Mr. Malanot was so excessively hospitable as to 
make me uneasy: he would let me pay for nothing, 
