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with the establishment^ is by a new arrange- 

 ment brought from Manchester, in addition to 

 the professors formerly engaged. That not- 

 withstanding all the objections to my proposals ; 

 notwithstanding the severe difficulty the ma- 

 nagers laboured under of divesting themselves of 

 the ideas they entertained against them ; not- 

 withstanding the " scrupulous delicacy" they 

 felt, lest I should trespass upon the province of 

 other professors, (a delicacy I firmly expected to 

 have experienced from them myself;) notwith- 

 standing the conditions frequently presented 

 to them in my papers, and the intimations often 

 repeated to^me by a most respectable member 

 of their committee ; notwithstanding the publi- 

 cations I made, under their immediate auspices 

 and sanction, in my lectures, and by adver- 

 tisement in the papers : notwithstanding all 

 these considerations, Dr. Smith, for many years 

 past their lecturer on botany, is removed from 

 the very department in which he is particularly 

 eminent, and is announced for that which I was 

 engaged to introduce, and which, at no incon- 

 siderable pains and expense, I had actually 

 introduced at the Royal Institution. 



Far, very far am 1 from wishing to detract 

 from the merit of any of my contemporaries, out 

 of office or in it; those who honoured me with 

 their attendance at my lectures, will do me the 

 favour to recollect, that it never formed any 



