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donnez rudement sur les oreilles: j’espere que cela 
lui apprendra a vivre: nous en avons ri de bon ceeur. 
J'ai eu Phonneur de vous écrire pour vous prier 
de faire mes sincéres remercimens a la Société Lin- 
néene, et pour lui témoigner combien je me trou- 
vois honoré d’étre admis au nombre de ses membres. 
Voulez vous bien leur réitérer les assurances de 
mon respect, et de mon attachement inviolable. 
Str George Staunton to J. E, Smith. 
Dear Sir, Buxton, Sept. 1, 1790. 
Not only have I to thank you for your kind let- 
ter, but also to request you will present my ac- 
knowledgements to your friend for his very obli- 
ging invitation to his house; and though a variety 
of engagements will prevent me from availing my- 
self of it this year, I shall, if I go to Scotland, as I 
am inclined to do next year, pay my respects then, 
when my little fellow will be perhaps somewhat 
better able than at present to distinguish the value 
of such a botanical collection. 
Since you left us he has had the opportunity only 
of seeing Mr. Eyre of Hassop’s collection, where 
he saw and ate of the fruit of the A/wsa, of that 
kind which is called the /¥g-Banana in the West 
Indies: this was a great curiosity to him, who, 
though he saw the plant at Kew, never saw the fruit 
before. We saw at Bakewell impressions of several 
plants in argillaceous earth and iron-stone, which 
were found in working the mines of this country. 
The Arundo Bambos, one of the exotic Luphor- 
