
           must be classical, the responsibility for facts laying on the writers. 
The Society being only pledged that by the style and form the papers 
were deemed worth of publication. Such plan or something like 
will 1 am sure meet with the approbation of the members. I hope you 
will propose it and have it executed as soon as possible; and I shall 
become gladly a regular contributor to it; you must beware of falling into 
the oligarchous plan of the Academy of Philad. [Philadelpha] who only allow a select 
few to enjoy the privilege of insertion & reject others without giving motives.
My reviews of Pursh & Nuttall, might receive the appellation of Observations 
on American Botany they were called reviews to suit the Magaz. 
whence the length of remarks & number of corrections,
I have just heard heard that Mr Landreth nurserymen here has tea plants 
for sale. I mean to see them and write a fourth letter accordingly.
When a plant is changed from one genus to another, it becomes 
in the scale of probability 2 Chances to 1 that it belongs to neither, 
because if the first instance was a mistake,the second must be so, likewise.
When it is put in 3 genera, there are three chances to 1 & so forth, but 
I did not mean to say that in all instances such is the fact, there will 
always be one chance out of so many in favor of any of the genera until 
the matter is decided by a real acurate observer divested of the 
prejudice that all plants must belong to known genera. 
Franklin, Jefferson, Pinckney in America & Bertholett [Claude Louis Berthollet], Chaptal [Jean Antoine Chaptal], Fourcroy,
Columbus, Cook, Bougainville [Louis Antoine de Bougainville], &c had no particular pretentions to botanical Science 
yet they were eminent philosophers, or navigators & fosterers of Science & even of 
Botany by indirect means, have had genera named after them;
it is therefore to Mr Clinton [DeWitt Clinton] as a philosopher, Agriculturist, 
Writer on Geology and the tides of the Lakes natural history in his discourses 
Geology and the tides of the Lakes & a fosterer of Science, that 
I have dedicated a genus, not to the Statesman nor polititian. Dr 
Barton who was a federalist, named the Jeffersonia! If 
you do not aprove of Clintonia much less must you of Franklinia &
Muhlenberg’s Flora Lancastriensis is merely going to the press 
at last Mr Collins has rec'd your plants & will answer you in a few days,
also about the phosphate of Iron.

        