D ED I C ATI ON. 



TO JAMES EDWARD SMITH, M. D. 



PRESIDENT OF THE LINNiEAN SOCIETY 



&c. &c. 



Vineyard, Hammersmith, May J, 1810. 



SIR,' 



There is no gentleman in this 

 country better able to appreciate the merit of my 

 fathers work on Botany, than yourself ; and when 

 it is considered at what an early period of the esta- 

 blishment of the true science his " Introduction" 

 came forth, and how much it has done to introduce 

 the Sexual System to the notice of the public, it 

 cannot fail to be pleasing to you, who are daily ad- 

 vancing the Science of Botany, to see the same work 

 continued in its publication, with all the modern 

 improvements, which have poured in like a torrent 

 upon the botanist, and made the science assume, as 

 it were, a new face. Although many elementary 



