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compare together, perhaps been enabled to find out 
the true uses of everything. As yet, we are not 
got beyond the elements; but it appears to me that 
we,—that is, you who are the enlightened professors 
of natural history,—build surely as you go, and that 
you have laid a foundation for solid and progressive 
improvement. 
How I admire your English Botany !—the first 
thing of the kind. You must not talk of a close 
yet, when so many things remain to be figured. 
I long for acompletion of Flora Britannica. I 
shall look over all English plants again. Shall you 
be able to maintain all your new Cryptogamics ? Do 
set somebody upon Ulve and Conferve. Oh that 
I may see them illustrated before I die! 
Ever yours, 
S. GOODENOUGH. 
Dr. Goodenough to J. E. Smith. 
Dear Sir, Rochester, Dec. 20, 1807. 
Many thanks for your kind letter; but I am 
grieved to think by the expressions of it, that a 
letter from me to you the moment I received intel- 
ligence of my advancement, has not reached you. 
You know me very well,—what I have been, that I 
hope to continue; neither will one old friend have 
ever to say that I have forgotten him. 
Rose Castle is distant, but it opens out a new 
country. The labours of my mind will be relieved 
there, as elsewhere, by the delights of natural hi- 
