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ably recur if there is not any Hermes like you, that 
puts an end to that confusion. I always did, ac- 
cording to your view, defend the necessity of an ar- 
tificial system, and especially that of Linnzus, for 
analytical examination; anatural one, even that of 
Jussieu, being of no use at all for that purpose. 
I explain and contend for Linnzus’s system in 
my Lectures. The plants in my garden are ranged 
according to Jussieu’s. 
A. ScHULTES. 
21. Cyclopedia—When Dr. Rees first under- 
took the arrangements of this great work, he re- 
quested Sir James to furnish the botanical articles, 
but other occupations deterred him from the under- 
taking : and upon his declining it, the Rev. William 
Wood of Leeds supplied that department of litera- 
ture, till illness deprived him of the power of pro- 
ceeding ; when Sir James being again solicited on 
the subject, he no longer hesitated: and after the 
death of that excellent man in 1808, he continued 
his assistance till the close of this voluminous 
work. 
In a letter dated 1807, Sir James tells Mr. Ros- 
coe, that “he had undertaken to write the physio- 
logy, terminology, and biography of the botanical 
part of Dr. Rees’s Cyclopedia, which he was re- 
quested to do when Mr. Wood of Leeds was ill. 
Indeed,” he adds, “the whole of the botany fell 
upon me, but now he is well enough to resume the 
descriptive parts. I have just done Clusius and 
Peter Collinson.” 
