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by Professors Mazzi, Nesti, and especially Dr. Carlo Passeriiii, 
whose accuracy in matters of science, is matched by that 
strictness of moral character in every social relation which 
we so rarely meet with. 
You have seen with what liberality they have adorned with 
new and varied improvements this Botanic Garden, which by 
the active care of the excellent family of Targioni, has arrived 
at such perfection, and may rival any other in the abundance 
of species, through the assiduity of the agriculturist, Signor 
Baroni, who is so eminent for his theoretical and practical 
knowledge of Phytology. Thus to renew the vigour of scientific 
establishments, on occasion of these meetings, is certainly not 
the least of the infinite benefits arising from the institution 
of Congresses. 
And from this third Italian meeting, which we are about 
to conclude in these revered and hospitable walls, — a meeting 
which, from the number and eminence of the visitors, has 
exceeded its predecessors in a flattering degree, — while we 
derive an ever increasing hope of the rapid advancement of 
our institution, we have also a fresh evidence, that to what- 
ever honourable enterprise the Italians are summoned, they 
respond to the call, as they have always responded, when 
Patriotism attracts, unites, and warms them. 
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