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and instruction I have derived from your Intro- 
duction to Botany, the Flora, and Lachesis Lap- 
ponica, &c. &c. And when next you think of re- 
paying any favour I can confer, remember that I 
owe my knowledge of botany to you, and that I 
shall always consider it a duty (a pleasant one) to 
return those obligations you first conferred on me. 
Let me, wherever fate wills it, if possible do some- 
thing to contribute to your herbarium every year ; 
and the consciousness of having afforded you gra- 
tification will be ample recompense for my exertions. 
My sincere thanks are due to you for your sym- 
pathy in my late bereavement. Had you known 
my father you could better have appretiated the loss 
I have sustained. Many men pass away, and leave 
behind the reputation of a good name; _ but his vir- 
tues were not like those of ordinary men. I cannot 
tell you what he was: but when you are next in 
Liverpool, ask Mr. Martin, with whom I have the 
pleasure to be acquainted,—ask of him, of those 
who knew him, and you will find the contemplation 
of such a character will exalt your idea of human 
nature, to find it capable of such purity and bene- 
volence. Excuse this passing tribute to his worth. 
Do you remember Horace’s 
“. ...Cui pudor, et justitiee soror 
Incorrupta fides, nudaque veritas, 
Quando ullum invenient parem ? 
Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit ! ” 
It is so applicable ! 
With great respect, Yours ever, 
¥. Boorr. 
