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tions would certainly not come so well from any 
other mouth. Another reason is, that I call this 
genus [ookeria, after a friend here, F.L.S.*, who is 
one of the best of our cryptogamic botanists, anda 
very promising young man,—who devotes an inde- 
pendent fortune to literary and other commendable 
objects. 
Your Lordship’s most faithful 
J. E. Smiru. 
The Bishop of Carlisle to J. E. Smith. 
My dear Sir, April 5, 1808. 
I have begun my career in the House of Lords. 
You cannot think how my timeis cut up byit. Fifty- 
eight hours confinement there (as my predecessor's 
fate was) in one week is rather too much. We 
have to thank All the Talents, or, as they are hu- 
morously styled, all the papers. I do not think it 
possible that I can be at the Linnean Society to- 
morrow, for I was told today that there will be a 
late debate. 
We had a very agreeable day at Lambert’s. Sir 
A. Hume was there, Admiral and Mrs. Essington, 
General and Mrs. Grose, MacLeay and Marsham, 
and Lord Seaforth! He contrived with all his deaf- 
ness to hold conversations and to play at cards. 
Your Piquoté (I never knew before how to spell 
that word, neither do I know its etymology now) 
pink is acurious plant. I never saw a yellow one 
* Dr. W. J. Hooker, now Regius Professor of Botany in the 
University of Glasgow. 
