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as very indifferent health and delicate eyes could 
permit. “Anim causa ad lenienda vite fastidia.” 
Scopoli Entom. Carniol. Pref. I cannot refrain in 
one single instance, my dear friend, lamenting a 
very great error of the press 1 hope,—viz. vol. iil. 
p. 170, in styling Van Bercherm an ingenious bo- 
tanist! For Jotanist let us read, if you will, zoolo- 
gist. I knew him well,—a good young man; the 
only solid knowledge he had then in natural history 
was relative to Quadrupeds, not Mammalia. But as 
for botany! I should,—as I love you, and as I wish 
you ever from my heart as free from error and in- 
justice as possible,—I should, I say, have hardly 
been less grieved had you spoke of your cordial 
friend Davall as an ingenious astronomer ! 
Another testimony must still be added, though 
last, not least welcome to the author of the Tour; 
and it is memorable as being contained in almost 
the first letter he ever received from the historian 
of the Medici. 
“T will not trouble you with enumerating the par- 
ticulars which your parcel contained, all of which I 
highly value, but none more than the three volumes 
of your Tour, which display so much of your own 
observations and opinions. To say that these are 
almost invariably in unison with my own is perhaps 
but a very doubtful kind of commendation; and I 
will therefore add, that these volumes exhibit that 
well-tempered zeal for rational liberty, that love of 
science and predilection for works of art, which will 
always render them highly interesting to all those 
