is 
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Professor Martyn to Sir J. E. Smith. 
Dear Sir, Pertenhall, Nov. 16, 1821. 
_ [have been reading your Selection of the Corre- 
spondence of Linneus &c., and have been perhaps 
more interested in the work than most others; for 
though the chief part of the correspondence is an- 
tecedent to my botanical life, yet most of the par- 
ties were familiar to me in my early days, though 
I had personal acquaintance with few of them. 
These letters show how dead botany was in Eng- 
land in the middle of the last century, when Col- 
linson and Ellis, two men not professionally scien- 
tific, but engaged in commerce, were Linnzus’s 
principal English correspondents! His system can 
hardly be said to have been publicly known among 
us till about the year 1762, when Hope taught it 
at Edinburgh, and I at Cambridge, and Hudson 
published his fora. 
Go on and prosper, my dear friend, in your Flora 
Greca, and your other most useful works, in pro- + 
moting the most delightful of all sciences ; and be- 
lieve me, &c. 
Tuos. Martyn. 
28. The English Flora.—Of the English Flora, 
dedicated to perpetuate his regard for one of his 
earliest as well as latest friends, Sir Thomas Geary 
Cullum, Bart., the first and second volumes were 
published in 1824, the third in 1825, and the fourth 
in March 1828. 
