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Dr. Darwin to J. E-. Smith. 
Dear Sir, Derby, Sept. 12, 1792. 
I should sooner have written to thank you for 
the books you were so kind as to send me. I 
mentioned your Society to Sir Brooke Boothby of 
Ashbourne, and to Dr. Johnson of this town, two 
ingenious men, who wish to become Fellows of 
the Linnean Society. Sir Brooke Boothby has a 
great collection of plants, which you probably saw 
when you were in this country. Sir Brooke is now 
at Ashbourne, so that I can acquaint him if it be 
agreeable to you to admit him to your Society. I 
received much pleasure from your Thesis De Ge- 
neratione, though our theories will not agree. 
With true esteem, I am, yours, 
E. Darwin. 
Dr. Pulteney to J. E. Smith. 
Dear Sir, Blandford, Oct. 14, 1792. 
I am tempted to make a request to you, which I 
confess to be not very reasonable:—Can you do me 
the favour of the loan of your copy of the folio 
EMstoria Muscorum of Hedwig? I am engaged to 
give Mr. Nichols a compendious catalogue of the 
rare plants of Leicestershire, for his history of that 
county now in the press; and I wish to make my 
— references to Hedwig, in the Musci frondosi, taking 
it for granted that his book will become classical 
in that way. 
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