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on the writer, but on the work of which it forms a 
part. You will not however be surprised that Iam 
still more interested in the discussion respecting 
natural and artificial systems, which I conceive you 
have completely set at rest; and that too, without 
giving the advocates for either any just ground of 
complaint. I only regret that this excellent tract 
doesnot form a part of the Transactions of the Lin- 
nean Society, where you would have appeared in 
your proper character, as defending the system of 
the great man whose name adorns the institution 
over which you have with such universal approba- 
tion so long presided, and over which I hope you 
will yet preside for many many years to come. 
WILLIAM Roscoe. 
Dr. Swartz to Sir J. E. Smith. 
My dear Friend, Stockholm, Noy. 19, 1817. 
I return you my most hearty thanks for your 
kind letter of June the 19th, which I had the plea- 
sure to receive not very long ago through the hands 
of a travelling friend of mine just returned home 
from your country. I acknowledge also with equal 
pleasure your very agreeable present of the article 
intended for the Supplement to the Edinburgh En- 
cyclopedia, which article I have perused with the 
greatest satisfaction; and of the Compendium Flore 
Britannice, new edition, which I had already sent 
for and just received. The copy offered to the 
Academy of Sciences I have delivered in your name, 
