Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir James Edward Smith, Volume 2Longman, Rees, Orne Brown, Green and Longman, 1832 |
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... less limited room on the ground - floor . - Not to be too prolix , and to come to the point , I discovered last summer , that in this position , from a certain degree of damp , though not very great , my herbarium has been in a great ...
... less limited room on the ground - floor . - Not to be too prolix , and to come to the point , I discovered last summer , that in this position , from a certain degree of damp , though not very great , my herbarium has been in a great ...
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... less boisterous situation , I looked out for the first break in the rocks where it might be at all practicable to get down ; and this I executed , not indeed without some difficulty ; though I had still more to make myself followed by a ...
... less boisterous situation , I looked out for the first break in the rocks where it might be at all practicable to get down ; and this I executed , not indeed without some difficulty ; though I had still more to make myself followed by a ...
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... less precious to a bigot Catholic : it shall soon be framed and glazed . Aristo- lochia Pistolochia gave me great pleasure . Lichens will be treasures ; and Grasses , -Oh ! how I long to understand them well ; -the Agrostis tribe , & c ...
... less precious to a bigot Catholic : it shall soon be framed and glazed . Aristo- lochia Pistolochia gave me great pleasure . Lichens will be treasures ; and Grasses , -Oh ! how I long to understand them well ; -the Agrostis tribe , & c ...
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... not mean to say that the plant of Al- lioni and many others be the alpinum : I think it is not ; -but the other is much less frequent , which I have gathered on the heights of Great St. Bernard , and which I have from the Grimsel . I am 26.
... not mean to say that the plant of Al- lioni and many others be the alpinum : I think it is not ; -but the other is much less frequent , which I have gathered on the heights of Great St. Bernard , and which I have from the Grimsel . I am 26.
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... less esteem your lady , if I hear that the cares of a family ( on which I congratulate you on having a prospect ) should take her off even from botany . You inquire about my old faithful servant Fran- çois . He is come back , but was ...
... less esteem your lady , if I hear that the cares of a family ( on which I congratulate you on having a prospect ) should take her off even from botany . You inquire about my old faithful servant Fran- çois . He is come back , but was ...
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