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do, and at the same time be a perfect and complete 
declaration of the share of the work you have had, 
which will come admirably well in that place, under 
the plea of an honourable care that no fault com- 
mitted by you should by any misconception be laid 
to the charge of your friend. 
If this plan meets your ideas, the business will 
be settled I think to the perfect satisfaction of the 
trustees, and I have no doubt of yours also. If you 
see any objections to it, do me the favour of stating 
them, and I will take them into immediate consi- 
deration. Being, my dear Sir, with real esteem and 
regard, very faithfully yours, 
JosEPH Banks. 
J. E. Smith to Sir J. Pinks! 
My dear Sir, Norwich, Feb. 26, 1805. 
I take the earliest opportunity in my power to 
thank you for the kind attention you have given to 
the subject of my last, and for your excellent letter 
received on Sunday afternoon. It has always been 
my intention to prefix a preface to the Flora Greca 
upon the plan you so ably suggest. In that every- 
thing will be fully explained. The exact nature of 
the materials Sibthorp left, the great pains and ex- 
pense he bestowed, and his zeal and knowledge, 
shall have as full justice done them as possible. His 
manuscripts, when deposited at Oxford, will vouch 
for all this. I shall also as simply and plainly as 
possible state what part I have had in the work, and 
the assistance I have received from you or other 
