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IX. Notes relating to B 'any, collected from the Manuscripts of 
the late Peter Collinspn, Esq., F.R.S., and communicated by 
Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq., F.R.S. and A.S., V.P.L.S. 
Read April 18, 1809. 
Berne lately on a visit to John Cator, Esq., of Beckenham- 
Place, and looking one day over his library, amongst a collec- 
tion of books left him by his uncle, who married the daughter of 
the celebrated Peter Collinson, I discovered several which had 
formerly belonged to that eminent naturalist. One of them was 
his own copy of Millers Gardeners and Botanist’s Dictionary, 
the last edition published by the author, witlf the following note 
at the bottom of the title page: ** The gift of my old friend the 
author to P. Collinson, F.R.S." "This book contains a great 
- deal of his manuscript notes relating to the plants cultivated in 
those days, both in his own gardens and in those of the most 
celebrated of his contemporaries; with a complete catalogue of 
the plants he had cultivated in his garden at Mill-Hill, and a list 
of all those which he had himself‘introduced into this country 
from Russia, Siberia, America, and other parts of the world; 
also some original letters from Dillenius, Miller, Bartram, and 
others; and a short account of his own life, which appears not 
to have been known to his biographers. * Mr. Cator having obli- 
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