DEDICATION, v 



regard the pralfe of a dedication as 

 mere words of courfe, which cannot 

 therefore in any degree exalt their 

 ideas either of the author or his pa- 

 tron. 



These conliderations are fufficient 

 to overpower my inchnation to expa- 

 tiate, as with truth I might, on your 

 improvement of the fcience of Bo- 

 tany in this univerfity, and on what 

 may be flill expeded from your 

 knowledge, affiduity, and inclination : 

 with regard particularly to the laft, 

 the gold medal, with which you are 

 pleafed annually to reward the fludent 

 who prefents the beft hortus Jiccus, is 

 a better teftimony than any thing I 

 could fay upon the fubjedt. 



Since 



