“When, in your delightful retirement at Allerton, I felt transported to the villa of your own ‘Lorenzo,’ I was agreeably surprised to find how large a portion of your attention scientific botany had shared, amid your ardent devotion to the historic Muse. Let this remind you of that time, so grateful to my recollection, and which, if I may judge by subsequent transactions, you do not wish to forget. Long had I been anxious to know the historian of the ‘Medici;’ but I now wish far more to cultivate and preserve the regard of a Roscoe. Allow me to subscribe myself,
