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qu'elle attache 4 cette publication. Il a été dépose 
honorablement dans la Bibliotheque de l'Institut, et 
M. Desfontaines a été chargé par ’Académie de lui 
en rendre un compte verbal. 
Agréez, Monsieur, l'assurance de ma considéra- 
tion distinguée. 
B. Cuvier. 
P.S. Oserais-je vous prier de profiter de quelque 
occasion pour m’addresser le diploma de membre 
de la Société Linnéenne: m’honorant d’appartenir 
depuis long tems 4 cette association distinguée, je 
desirerais posséder le document qui en est la preuve. 
Sir Thomas G. Cullum to Sir J. E. Smith. 
My dear Sir James, Bury, March 19, 1824. 
I received your kind present of the two volumes 
of English Flora, and shall wait with some impa- 
tience for the continuation of it; but should almost 
despair of seeing it, if you had not told us in page 
21 that you would proceed immediately with the 
remainder. 
It is true, as you say, that I have a love of natu- 
ral science, and it has amused me a great many of 
the years of my long life; yet I am conscious how 
deficient I am in the real knowledge of natural 
history, as many amateurs, as they are called, are of 
the fine paintings they possess. I will not however 
conceal the pleasure I feel in your address to me, 
which tells the world far and near, that I have the 
