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of the title, & I know I may trust my fame implicitly in the hands of you & my friend Dryander, who will both be ready enough to assert my claim, in case I should be under-rated. I know also that my advantages would be tenfold, by on the score of ambition, by such a proceedure [procedure] - but about this I am really very easy, for I love the science chiefly for its own sake. I would only not put an expression [?] into the title that should give a false idea, whether for or against me.
We are truly happy to bear so good an account of your health, & that you do not attribute any mischief to the red herrings. It would seem very unfair to do so, as you have been better this winter than usual.
I am now hard at work at the Prodromus Floræ Graæcæ (having got the great work sufficiently forward), which would be easy enough if Sibthorp had referred from his Mss habitats & names catalogues to either specimens or drawings - but as he has not, it is a series of laborious criticism & investigation.
Believe me Dr. Sir
Yr. ever obliged & faithful serv.t
J E Smith.