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of the Life of Dr. John Sudbury; who was Dean 
of Durham in 1661. 
Dean Sudbury was born at Bury St. Edmunds, 
and left a considerable estate in Suffolk towards 
putting out boys as apprentices, and the residue to 
the Grammar-school at Bury. But an anecdote Dr. 
Zouch relates of Dean Sudbury’s “recovering many 
books that had been embezzled and taken away by 
Mr. Isaac Gilpin, who also lent Gerard’s Herbal, 
which cost 10/., to Colonel Robert Lilburn, who is 
now in the Tower, and still detains that book from 
the church’s library,” I think is somewhat curious, 
in showing the estimation in which Gerard’s Herbal 
was held at that time. The Doctor should have told 
us (if he knew) whether it was Gerard’s own edition, 
or the amended one by Johnson. 
But the best part of my letter is to acquaint you 
and Lady Smith the time when Bury Fair will be in 
all its splendour and gaiety: but this I shall leave to 
Lady Cullum; andshall therefore bid you farewell, 
and am, with great regard, 
T. G. CuLium. 
Baron Humboldt to Sir J. FE. Smith. 
Monsieur le Président, Paris, ce 12 Juillet, 1816. 
Je prends la liberté de vous adresser ces lignes 
par un de mes intimes amis, M. Kunth, Professeur 
Royal de Botanique a l'Université de Berlin. C’est 
le botaniste qui a publié les ova Genera et Species 
Plantarum que vous avez recu avec tant d'indul- 
gence. M. Kunth étoit l'éléve le plus chéri de 
Willdenow; et je suis sir que vous serez content 
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