president’s address. 
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especially rich in the productions of New Holland and Nepaul. 
The worthy Professor Wallich at Calcutta, whose health has 
lately suffered from an Indian climate, has greatly contributed 
towards the latter. The Linnaean specimens, as well as Sir 
James’s private herbarium, are very well preserved ; and after 
the old plan, which is now seldom followed on the Continent, 
they are fastened down on a folio sheet of paper, and washed 
over with a solution of corrosive sublimate. Sir James has also 
under his care the plants of Sibthorpe, to aid him in the pub- 
lication of his Flora Grceca, which is now nearly completed. . . . 
“ I have rarely beheld a more noble countenance ; one 
indicative of such candour, simplicity, and kindness, united with 
so much clearness of intellect, as that of Sir J. E. Smith ; and 
the expression of his featuxes will never be obliterated from 
my memory.” u 
This account of the treasures at 29, Surrey street, is incorrect 
in one particular. A pamphlet now in possession of the Linnean 
Society is styled : — “ Linnaean Cabinet of Minerals. A Catalogue 
of the genuine and entire Collection of the late celebrated 
Swedish Naturalist, Sir Charles Linne . . . which will be 
sold by Mr. King ... on Tuesday, March 1st, 1796, and 
following day,” etc. Dr. B. D. Jackson writes (in litt.) : — 
“ P'rom this it is certain that Schultes’s allusion to ‘ Minerals’ 
must be a mistake, the only mineral remaining in Smith’s hands 
being the flint and steel in Linne’s tinderbox. which did not pass 
to us with the natural history objects and library. From 12, 
Marlborough street, at the top of Regent street, Smith moved 
to Hammersmith, near the ‘Vine’ Nursery, and it was from 
that place he moved direct to Norwich with the remainder of 
the Linnaean collections and his own.” 
Lady Smith says, “Among the friends whom a love of botany 
procured him, must be mentioned the late James Crowe, Esq., 
of Lakenham, to whose constant attachment and friendship Sir 
James was indebted for much of the choicest happiness he 
enjoyed in his subsequent residence in his native town.” b 
Almost as soon as he began to study under Mr. Rose, James 
Smith must have been introduced to Mr. James Crowe (1750- 
