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CHAPTER V. 
Enumeration of the Works of Sir J. E. Smith. 1. Reflexions on 
the Study of Nature.—2. Dissertation on the Sexes of Plants.— 
3. Thesis de Generatione.—4. Reliquie Rudbeckiane.—5. Plan- 
tarum Icones.—6. Icones Picte.—7. English Botany.—8. Spi- 
cilegium Botanicum.—9. Flora Lapponica.—10. Botany of 
New Holland.—11. Tour on the Continent.—12. Syllabus.— 
13. Insects of Georgia.—14. Tracts.—15. Flora Britannica.— 
16. Compendium Flore Britannice.—17. Flora Greca.— 
18. Prodromus Flore Grece.—19,. Exotic Botany.—20. In- 
troduction to Botany.—21. Articles in Rees’s Cyclopedia.— 
22. Tour to Hafod.—23. Lachesis Lapponica.—24. Articles in 
Trans. of Linn. Soc.—25. Review of Modern State of Botany.— 
26. Grammar of Botany.—27. Linnean Correspondence.— 
28. English Flora. 
1. In the year 1785, previously to his tour on 
the Continent, Sir James Smith made his first ap- 
pearance as an author in publishing Reflexions on 
the Study of Nature, which he translated from the 
Latin. Itis the Preface to the Museum Regis Adol- 
phi Frederict of Linneus ; a work containing de- 
scriptions of the various natural productions of the 
museum of the King of Sweden, printed in 1754 at 
His Majesty’s expense. 
In speaking of this most superb and expensive 
of all Linnzus’s works, “one fact,” he observes, 
“may be learnt from it,—that the study of nature 
does not necessarily tend to make a man irreligious, 
‘as some weak people have been led to believe. A 
