POT HOE 
Right Honourable 
WILLIAM 
Lord Vi-Count BROUNCKER 
THE 
PRESIDENT 
AND TO THE 
Council and Fellows 
OF THE 
ROYAL SOCIETY: 
MY LORD, 
EF the Dedication of Books were not in ufe; 
yet here, I think, I might have beena Pre- 
cedent. The promotion of Phytological 
Science is one Part of Your Work; and’tis 
49 Tou have called me to the management of 
» this Part; for fome time, have intrufted me 
herein; and by Your moft favourable and candid accep- 
tance of what I have performed thus far, have encou- 
raged me hereunto: I therefore prefent but Zour Own, 
into Your Hands. 
The great Honour and Advantage of Your Fellowthip, 
I firft obtained, by Mediation of Dr. Wilkins, the late moft 
Reverend Bishop of Chefter. Whom I cannot name, 
without faying thus much of him, That He was a Per- 
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