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JONATHAN STOKES AND HIS COMMENTARIES. 

 By James Britten, F.L.S., and G. S. Boulgee, F.L.S. 



(Concluded from p. 30G.) 



The following extracts from the "Abbreviations explained" 

 (pp. cx-cxxxiv) contain all the matter which appears to be of 

 interest : the mere titles of books are not included. Stokes's 

 spelling and punctuation have been preserved throughout : a few 

 explanatory notes and cross-references have been added in square 

 brackets. It has not been thought necessary to give the page of 

 the Commentaries for each reference. 



Bakewell bath ijarden cultivated by Mr. Watson, autlior of 

 Strata of Derbyshire, 4to, and [White Watson, fl. 1773-1831, 

 F.L.S. 1800] of Matlock, 4to. 



Baker, Mr. T. rector of Whitburn, near Sunderland in 

 Durham. The specimens given and lent to which his name is 

 subjoined were collected in a tour through France Switzerland 

 and Italy to Poestum. [He also gathered plants in Oxford 

 garden (p. 134) ; many letters from him are in Winch's corre- 

 spondence at the Linnean Society.] 



[Ballard — see Bobinson' s street garden.] 



Banks (b. 1748, d. 1820). Why have we not a life of this 

 patron of natural history. Why are not the plates he engraved 

 and their descriptions by his librarians given to the world at the 

 expence of a society of subscribers, who may perform for natural 

 science what the Dilettanti society has done for the illustration 

 of ancient art. The descriptions should be published in 8vo. 

 The plates are in largish folio. L'Heritiers to the best of 

 my recollection are engraved on the model of them. [See Journ. 

 Bot. 1905, 287, for an account of these plates.] 



Bath garden on oolitic limestone or lias, cultivated by Sole 

 [William Sole (1741-1802) ] , apothecary and author of Menthae 

 britannicae, who travelld every year over some part of the island 

 in pursuit of indigenous plants. 



Bautrij garden in Nottinghamshire, cultivated by Dowager 

 Lady Galway [printed Bawtry on p. 15. J 



Belmont garden in Staffordshire, the seat of J. Sneyd. See 

 Soho garden and Bot. arr. ed. iv. i. p. xiv. On gritstone. 



Blymhill garden in Staffoi'dshire, between Penkridgc and 

 Newport, on sand and gravel, cultivated by the amiable rector 

 Dickenson who travelling in France with 0. Darwin the author of 

 experiments on Pus, brought home many of the aromatic plants 

 of Montpelier from Gouan. [Samuel Dickenson travelled as 

 tutor with Charles Darwin (1758-1778), uncle of the author of The 

 Origin of Species, in 1766-7. Life and Letters of C. Danuin, i, 7.] 



Bosicorth garden, in Leicestershire, cultivated by Dr. Power 

 [John Power M.D. fl. 1778-1811, whose herbarium is now in 

 the possession of the Holmesdale Natural History Society] , 

 removed to Lichfield. 



Boraston, Mr. Gregory, clergyman in the diocese of Worcester, 

 collected plants in Italy and Gibraltar. [pp. 23, 27.] 



