“I am directed by the Philadelphia Linnæan Society to inform you that they have elected you a member of their association.
“In adding your distinguished name to their list of foreign members, the society have designed to testify the high sense they entertain of your eminence in the science of botany, the promotion of which is one of the objects of their institution.
“I have taken advantage of this opportunity of transmitting you a copy of a Prodromus of a Flora Philadelphica, which I published about
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