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President, in electing him to that office year after 
year, was reflected back upon itself by the constant 
attention which he paid to its interests and by the 
unwearied devotion to scientific pursuits, which his 
more retired situation enabled him to exhibit with 
fewer interruptions than could have been expected 
had he continued to reside in London: and that 
his situation at Norwich did not injure him in the 
estimation of learned men, or hide from him the 
progress which science was making, the works he 
composed subsequently to his retreat are acknow- 
ledged proofs. 
The Rev. Dr. Goodenough to J. E. Smith. 
My dear Sir, February 21, 1797. 
I rejoice to hear of the comfortable arrangement 
of your family, and shall never cease regretting that 
that comfort could not be accomplished in the neigh- 
bourhood of London ;—you must allow your friends 
to regret in silence. I have not been at the Society 
since you went, except once at a meeting of the 
Fellows. I have introduced a most respectable 
member, Sir Thomas Frankland. 
Salisbury’s nomenclature is I think extremely im- 
proper, not to say ridiculous. I am sorry that he 
has persisted in his errors even to printing them. 
I was present at a very warm dispute between him 
and Dryander, who in his blunt rough manner 
finished his argument with “If this is to be the case 
with every body, what the devil is to become of 
botany”? I did not interfere then at all, but took 
