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sum. Fac itaque ut brevi certior fiam, et de tua 
perennante amicitia, et de harum rerum felici ad- 
ventu. 
Plura jam scribere vetat et temporis angustia et 
loci. Interim abs te exflagito, ut quam primum 
Lichenographia Britannica prodierit, exemplar hu- 
jus libri ad me perveniat. Philosophiam Licheno- 
logicam cum Terminologia critica edere jam nunc 
meditor; sed antea opus laudabile Turneri et Borreri 
studere vellem atque inde erudiri. 
Vale, 
Die 18 Nov. 1817. EK. ACHARIUS. 
Str Joseph Banks to Sir J. £. Smith. 
My dear Sir James, Soho Square, Dec. 25, 1817. 
My chief reason for troubling you with this is 
to tell you I have paid obedience to your mandate, 
by reading your article on botany in the Scotch 
Encyclopedia, which, conceiving it to be an ele- 
mentary performance, I had neglected till now to 
peruse. Iwas highly gratified by the distinguished 
situation in which you have placed me, more so I 
fear than I ought to have been. We are all too 
fond of hearing ourselves well spoken of by persons 
whom we hold in high regard. But, my dear Sir 
James, do not you think it probable that the reader 
who takes the book in hand for the purpose of 
seeking botanical knowledge, will skip all that is 
said of me, as not at all tending to enlarge his ideas 
on the subject? 
