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and abler friends, you have none who admires and 
esteems you more for your scientific and also for 
your amiable qualifications. 
A very clever man, Mr. P. Duncan of New Col- 
lege, Oxon (a great admirer of you), said of the 
Flora Britannica, “that it was a sort of logic,—so 
clear, so perspicuous and so convincing.” I thought 
of this in the examination I have made of the Flora. 
Hoping soon to see the remainder, and wishing you 
all health and strength to go on with that and your 
other works, and with many years of happiness, 
I am, my dear Sir James, 
Your faithful Friend, 
KE. B. Ramsay. 
P.S. As an ardent lover of British botany, permit 
me (though Iam a mere novice) to take this oppor- 
tunity of expressing my unfeigned admiration of the 
Flora Britannica. I offer rather my thanks than 
my approbation; for approbation insignificant as 
mine is can never increase your reputation. 
Le Sécrétaire perpétuel de ? Académie a Monsieur 
le Chevalier J. E. Smith, Corréspondant, &c. 
Institut de France, Académie Royale des Sciences, 
Paris, le 10 Mai, 1824. 
L’Académie, Monsieur, a recu l’ouvrage que vous 
avez bien voulu lui addresser, et qui est intitulé 
Flore Anglaise, 2 vols. 8vo, 1824. J'ai Vhonneur 
de vous remercier au nom de l’Académie de l’envoi 
de cet ouvrage, et de vous temoigner tout le prix 
