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have very much engrossed the attention of medical 
gentlemen at this University. 
I am, with the highest respect, 
| Sir, your most obliged, &c. 
ARTHUR BRUCE. 
The Rev. H. Davies to J. E.. Smith. 
Aber, near Bangor, N. Wales, 
Dear Sir, March 4, 1793. 
Be pleased to accept my many thanks for your 
kind attention to my letter and packets. I am truly 
sorry I cannot supply you with a specimen of 4n- 
thericum serotinum: I have not a perfect one myself. 
I shall be much gratified to see your genera of 
ferns: there are certainly some British species 
likewise of that family that want ascertaining. 
I was observing to a friend very lately, that I 
discovered traits of a very masterly hand in Sow- 
erby’s English Botany ; but I confess I did not know 
where to look for the author: I thank you for that 
information. I wish to know the plan more parti- 
cularly. Is itto comprehend all English plants, or 
only the rarer ones, or such as are not already well 
figured? Is it intended to take in Cryptogamous 
plants? I have certainly several new ones of that 
class, and much at your service. Mr. Sowerby’s 
excellence in figuring these genera, among others, 
is conspicuous in Dickson’s Fasezculz. 
To your query, whether plants could be sent to 
London fresh so as to be drawn, I answer, I suppose 
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