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Bobart.' A letter from Bobart to Buddie, which is printed in full on 

 p. 379 of the Flora of Oxfordshire (1886), together with forty-two of his 

 autograph letters to Petiver and Sir Hans Sloane, are preserved in the 

 British Museum, 



In the Sloane Collection there is also a list of plants and of seeds 

 saved at Oxford by Bobart in 1695-6 : the number of the paper is 

 3343. A tract in the Library of the Botanic Garden at Oxford, entitled 

 Historiae Naturalis Sciagraphia, Oxford, 1720, is attributed to Bobart. 

 There is an oil-painting of him in the same Library, Petiver dedicated 

 to him Plate XII of his Gazophylacium Naturae et Artis, published in 

 1 702 \ 



Linnaeus named the genus Bobartia after him ; his name is per- 

 petuated also in Vicia Bobariii, Forst,, now V. angiisiifoUa, L., var. Bohartii, 

 and in Scrophidaria nodosa, L,, var. Bohartii, Pry or. 



TiLLEMAN Bobart, a younger brother of Jacob Bobart, the Professor, Bobart, 

 was also employed for a time in the Botanic Garden at Oxford. He Tilleman. 

 found a mint on Shotover, in Oxfordshire, which has been referred to 

 Mentha rubra, and Poa nemoralis about Oxford, a specimen of which, 

 Petiver says, was sent him from Oxford, ' ab amico benevolo D. Tille- 

 man Bobart.' He appears to have been employed in laying out the 

 park and gardens at Blenheim as late as the year 1709. Seven letters 

 relating to work done there are preserved in the British Museum, and 

 one dated Feb. 1711-12, which contains an inquiry as to the method of 

 preserving birds. In the Museum Petiverianum (1695), on p. 35, is a list 

 of British Butterflies, and the following entry by James Petiver : 

 ' A, 328 Papilio major caudatus ex nigro et luteo variegatus, The Royal 

 William ; the only one I have seen about London was caught by 

 my ingenious friend, Mr. Tilleman Bobart, in the Eoyal Gardens at 

 St. James'.* Tilleman Bobart was also employed in laying out the 

 gardens, &c. at Hamilton Court. 



Samuel Doody, who contributed the list of plants from Bagshot Doody, S. 

 Heath to the second edition of Ray's Synopsis, as has been already said, 

 was an apothecary. He was born in Staffordshire in 1656, and was 

 made Keeper of Chelsea Garden in 1692. Ray, in the second edition 

 of his Sijnopsis, alludes to him in flattering terms, and Antoine de 

 Jussieu speaks of him as ' inter Pharmaeopoeios Londinenses sui 

 temporis Coryphaeus.' He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 

 1695. 



^ For further particulars respecting Jacob Bobart see the BiograpMcal 

 Sketch by H. T. Bobart, 1884 ; Nichols' Illustrations, i. 342, 357, 361 ; Dictionary 

 of National Biography, v. 286 ; Pulteney, i. 312 ; Eichardson's Correspondence, 

 pp. 10, 152; Wood's Antiquities, 599; Philosophical Transactions, xiv (1683); 

 Petiver's Musei Bar. Nat. (1695); Bay's Philosophic Letters (1718) ; Universal 

 3Iagazine of Knoidedge and Pleasure, xxxii (1763) ; Granger's Biogr. Hist. Engl. 

 (1804) ; Evelyn's Diary and Correspondence, by W. Bray, 4to (1819) ; Aubrey's 

 Letters, 8vo (1813), 



