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I shall earnestly cultivate. He is a good naturalist, 
has a very pretty museum, and is a most pleasing 
companion. He gave me a letter to Mr. la Chenal 
at Basle, with whom I was pleased, no less for his 
knowledge and manners, than for his politeness in 
presenting me with my grand desideratum, the Phy- 
tobasanos, for which I ought indeed to thank you, 
as I suspect he had put it by for me in consequence 
of what you said; at least he took an early oppor- 
tunity to show me his own copy, and when I said I 
had long sought that book in vain, he immediately 
produced the duplicate. He promised to help me all 
in his power with the Syst. Veget., and will inform 
Schreber and Jacquin that I mean to publish it. 
I saw all the venerable relics of Holbein and 
Erasmus which you mentioned to me, and was 
much pleased with the three days I spent at Basle. 
At Strasburg I passed two days entirely with Pro- 
fessor Herman, one of the best and most zealous 
naturalists I have met with. 
At Nancy I saw Mr. Willement, a good botanist, 
from whom, as well as from most of the other peo- 
ple I have mentioned, I expect assistance for the 
Linnean Society. In the greenhouse at Nancy is 
the bust of Stanislaus the banished king of Poland, 
to whom Louis XV. gave this province for a refuge. 
Under it are the two lines which I have heard you 
quote as written for Louis XIV., and I wish to 
know whether they were so, or really original at 
Nancy. 
“Inter - - - - - - - succosque salubres, 
Quam bené stat populi vita salusque sua.” 
