PRESIDENT’S address. 
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glad to hear from you, but more particularly to see you on 
your return. My Wife joins me in best respects to Mrs. 
Woodwd. & yourself, from Dear Sir, 
“ Yours most sincerely, 
“J. PlTCHFORD. 
“There is one omission which, if you have time & not too 
much trouble, I cou'd wish you to execute. A Mr. Hingeston, 
an Apothecary in considerable business in partnership with 
Mr. DeVeine in Cheapside, is an old friend of mine. I think 
I may venture to say he will be glad to see you upon my acct. 
Of him, as a matter of curiosity only, I cou’d wish you to 
enquire, how easy or difficult a matter it might be, or otherwise 
upon what terms might a surgeon & Apothecary in ye Country 
get into partnership in a good business in Town, & whether 
there now is, or likely to be, such an opening ? There is like- 
wise another acquaintance of mine, a Mr. Woodds, an eminent 
Apothecary in Old Burlington Street, of whom the same might 
be ask’d. But upon second thoughts, if either of these shou’d 
be the least troublesome, I wish you wou’d communicate the 
matter to Mr. Smith, who at his leisure might, & I daresay 
wou’d, do it. If you should be desirous to see Mr. Alchorne 
at the Tower, Mr. Hmgeston would introduce you. 
I have enclosed for Mr. Huds., together with the Rubus, 
Carex vesicaria, & what we have called his inflata. If you 
see him you’ll hear what he says of them. My Wife has 
troubled you with a letter to put into the post office, as likewise 
a parcel for Dr. Savage’s family, who, I am very sure, wou’d 
be very glad to see you.” 
On his return to Norwich, Mr. Woodward showed his notes 
of the collections to Mr. Pitchford, “ who is surprised at some 
and doubts others ; upon the whole he is much delighted, but 
wishes he could compare Linnaeus’s specimens with Ray’s, 
which would be the perfect eclaircissment of English botany ; 
in which I perfectly agree with him.” Dr. Smith states that 
“ though an admirer of Linnaeus, he (Pitchford) was always 
peculiarly partial to Ray, and though ever so well acquainted 
