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has faithfully returned the whole he received, if a man does one 
thing not quite in the true square of sight we have a right to suspect 
the rest of his conduct; if I am wrong in doing so you will be so good 
as to set me ri 
_ “Among other things which displease me in his conduct is that 
I know & I dare say he does, that Cavanilles is about a monographie 
of Gerania. Be so good if I am right, to keep him at as good a 
very scarce. e 1 am wrong in suspecting so much, but I have 
wri in the same stile Dr. Blagden & desird him to consult with 
you on the subject Swartz is manageable you may possibly 
it sooner L’Héritier will get the most of his plants before I see them. 
do not want L’Héritier to employ Curtis’s draughtsman, he has 
was 
had access to the Banksian collections. 
year later (27 Sept. 1787) Dryander writes to Ba 
‘ L’Héritier is still here; but he says he must necessarily be in 
Paris about the middle of November; if possible he will wait for 
Smith’s coming back, that he may see the Geraniums in Linnzus’s 
herbarium. He is now hard at work on this genus; and, from his 
Banks’s opinion of L’Héritier, however, remained unfavourable, 
as is shown by the following letter from Smith; both seem to have 
about L’Héritier. Am sorry you have so much reason to think ill 
of him. I shall have much to say to you when we meet about 
cal 
Broussonet, although one of the best fellows in the world, & the 
most friendly to me in particular, is too much engaged in these 
intrigues. He is quite attached to L'Héritier & I believe has no 
* “ Among the Li Botanists, Mr. L’ is eminently distinguished 
by his most superb and scientific publications, the plates of which are executed 
with a degree of accuracy rarely to be met wi r are the descriptions 
complete’ (Smith, Correspondenee, i. 331). 
