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Garden according to its new Arrangement engraving which I shall have the Honor to transmit to you when finished and I have just sent to the Press a Flora Oxoniensis which I think may be useful to my Pupils - it is an Enumeration of our Oxford's Plants - with Linnean Nomenclature, some thing of this kind was wanted - the spirit of Botany encreased, & called for it. I am now confirmed by my Lectures. I think [indecipherable] with much Pleasure on a Botanical Tour I mean to make after they are finish[ed] to enjoy the Rarities of the Kew Garden & to consult on some doubtful Points the matchless Collection of Soho Square. may I trouble you to present my best Compliments to Mr Aiton & tell him that among our Umbelliferous Plants & the Remains of our Grecian [indecipherable] we may be fortunate in finding something worth sending to Kew. With the highest Respect I remain Sir
Yr faithful much obliged Friend
John Sibthorp