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of a book of such extreme cost at his expense; the 
other, the justice which ought strictly to be done to 
your talents and judgement by separating your part 
of the work distinctly from Sibthorp’s part, is, I 
think, a much fitter subject for an introduction ; 
because everything may there be specially stated 
and the reasons given, which surely ought not to be 
omitted, why Sibthorp neglected to do the things 
which you are now employed in. Thus will due jus- 
tice be done to both his and your claims in a plain 
and intelligent manner. I therefore submit to your 
censure the following title, for which we are obliged 
to your friend Dryander, a man whose correct ideas 
of justice, as well in matters of property as of Jite- 
rature, I have not yet seen excelled by those of any 
other of my friends. 
“Johannis Sibthorp M.D.S.S. Reg. et Linn. Lond. 
Socii Bot. Prof. Reg. in Academia Oxoniensi 
Flora Greca Edidit Jacobus Smith” (Here enter 
all your literary titles). 
Sibthorp’s intentions of making the descriptions 
he had at first omitted in Greece, and his journey 
there the second time for that purpose; the ill health 
which prevented him from executing his most lau- 
dable intentions; his death immediately after his 
return home; his will, with an eulogium on the sa- 
crifices he made to science, not only by submitting 
to personal privations, hazards, difficulties, &c., but 
also by his magnificent pecuniary provision for this 
work,—will make excellent themes for your Intro- 
duction. You may in it do full justice to the me- 
mory of your friend, which a title-page can never 
