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Sir T. G. Cullum to Sir* J. E, Smith. 
Bury St. Edmunds, 
My dear Sir James, Sept. 27, 1814. 
I returned home from my journey to Wakefield, 
Harrowgate, &c. on Saturday last ; and I cannot any | 
longer delay returning you my thanks for your kind 
present of the Introduction to Physiological and 
Systematic Botany, the perusal of which has many 
years ago given me much pleasure, and will continue 
so to do whenever I take it up either for instruc- 
tion or amusement: but I must forbear (as Dr. 
Thornton says) “expressing all the sentiments of 
respect and esteem entertained by me towards one 
so truly estimable.” 
I wished you had been with me at the Dropping 
Well (or rather rock) at Knaresborough, I think you 
would have found some Jungermannie, Lichens or 
Mosses ; but I am so totally ignorant in the Class 
Cryptogamia, that I do not pretend to know and 
distinguish the common Lichen or Moss. Travel- 
ling along the road a fine plant or two of the Znula 
Felenium caught my eye, and the Sedum Telephium 
in a hedge-bank for a quarter of a mile. The 
churchyard of Aberford near Ferrybridge, and the 
hedges near the town, are full of the Atropa Bella- 
donna, and the Colchicum autumnale in the meadows 
about Knaresborough, &c. 
I called upon an old acquaintance of mine near 
Wakefield, the Rev. Dr. Zouch, a Prebendary of 
Durham, and a Fellow of the Linnzan Society. He 
printed (but I believe never published) A Memoir 
* Tt was in July this year, that Sir James had the honour of 
being knighted by His late Majesty George IV. 
