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had been so much pleased with a former visit to Edin- 

 burgh, in 1809, that he engaged to return to Scotland 

 for the purpose of completing his northern tour ; and 

 he appears, from Dr Wright's correspondence, to 

 have been greatly delighted with the reception he had 

 met with. 



On the 14th of June 1811, Dr Wright observes to 

 l)r Garthshore : 



" I have a kind letter of thanks from our good friend Sir 

 Joseph, for a book I lately sent to him. It was Alston's 

 own copy of the Tirocinium Botanicum, and contained several 

 pages of MS. notes in the author's handwriting, prepared ap- 

 parently with a view to a second edition. Dr Alston was 

 Professor of Botany in your time, a man of character, an 

 excellent botanist, and the keenest adversary of the Linncan 

 doctrine. I am proud of Sir Joseph's acceptance of this cu- 

 rious relic, as it will be extant for many ages to come. 



" We have had a large crop of doctors," he adds, " this 

 graduation, no less than 26. The authors on Tetanus and 

 De Usu Aquas Frigida externo have done me great justice. 

 You will shew the paragraphs to Sir Joseph, whose liberal 

 mind will rejoice." 



He again writes to Dr Garthshore, on the 6th of 

 July 1811. 



" I have sent a paper which I lately prepared on the ab- 

 sorption of morbid poisons, to Sir Joseph Banks, and have 

 begged of him to shew it to you and Dr Blagden, and to 

 Messrs Home, Heaviside, and Abernethy. One of the 

 cases is that of a whitlow, of an ill-disposed nature, similar to 

 that, perhaps, which occasioned the loss of your finger. 

 Should the subject be thought new or important, it may be 

 given to the public through some respectable channel." 



