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ramosus cornu reniferi referena,' 1744 ; as also all the plants 

 drawn in Dr. Pocock's Historj, and engraved them on copper. 

 I also prepared those of Dr. Hughes' ' History of Barbadoes,' 

 and, lastly, Dr. Browne's ' History of Jamaica.' AU the plants were 

 drawn by me, and the descriptions, so far as I could see them 

 from the dried plants, were added by rae alone, after dissection. 

 And then, lastly, all the plants in Dr. Eussel's 'History of 

 Aleppo.' 



I may here remark on the eagerness of Dr. Browne over the 

 plants. He sent me a great number to my rooms that I might 

 choose forty of them ; and before I had laid on a single stroke 

 he paid me 40 guineas, for he feared 1 would not accept his work 

 without being prepaid. But the plants of Dr. Browne and 

 Dr. E-ussel I refused to engrave on copper, although they wished 

 to pay me some money for it ; indeed, they even offered me twice 

 as much as any other engraver on copper. 



I must shorten my writing as much as possible, and add the 

 correspondence with Herr Linnaeus since I left Holland ; but to 

 add all of it here in this place is, I think, unnecessary. I will, 

 however, here give the contents of two letters : — 



"Amico antique Gr. D. Ehret s. pi. d. 



"Multa tibi debeo, amice colende, quod multoties pulcherrima 

 tua dona ad me misisti. Doleo et dolui semper quod . . . licuit 

 numeris officiis . . . , quum ego remotissimus habitem. Omnes 

 qui videut tuas picturas stupescunt. Est nobis Pictor Academiae 

 senex qui nee videt nee audit, omnes huu [? plorant] ejus fatum, 

 . . . . , ut te possent invitare, quamvis deservient obtinere, cum 

 tui .... non vident orbis. 



"Accepi tuum Cereum minimum, et Agaricum ramosum, et 



Magnoliam, singula artis magisteria 



" Dabam Upsaliae, 1747, d. 12 Aug." 



" Pictori egregio D''" Gr. D. Ehret, amico antiquo. 



". . . . Ad banc Academiara nostram Upsaliensem comparavimus 

 et instruximus observatorium astronomicum, hortum bota- 

 nicum, theatrum anatomioum, instrumenta physica, et omnia 

 quae ad ornamentum scientiarum spectant. Solus pictor deficit. 

 Habemus senem pictorem, cujus fata expectamus ; tum nil magis 

 votis nobis esset, [quare ?] si tepotuissemus nobis comparare, tum 

 haberemus omnia. 



" Dabam Upsaliae, 1747, d. 2 Oetobris." 



That all may now come in order concerning my desire to enter 

 a botanic garden, I will here relate how iu the year 1750, in 

 November, I was elected without any difficulty to the Botanic 

 Garden of the Univer^^ity of Oxford. I only remained a year in 

 that service ; but in that time I behaved in such a way that the whole 

 University was satisfied with me. It was Dr. [Humphry] Sibthorp 



