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bequeathed his botanical manuscripts to him. In the Goodyer 

 collection there is a parchment cover that was used to hold loose 

 papers, which bears evidence to the association, for inside is written 

 Rondclet de Febribiis. It may have originally served to contain 

 notes taken by Lobel at Rondelet's lectures. 





LOBEL. 



Some ten years later we find Lobcl living in England. Driven 

 from his native land by civil war. he described himself as being 

 unable to make a home on a sea tossed by incessant tempests, or 

 to indulge his peaceful love of gardens and flowers on lands watered 

 with human blood. He came over to England to produce his first 

 great work, the Adversaria, and in return for English hospitality 

 he dedicated the work to Queen Elizabeth. The book was printed 

 in London in 1570. It was our first scientific Botany. In Turner's 



