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The Eev. Adam Buddle was born in Lincolnshire, at Deeping Buddle. 

 St. James. He was educated at St. Catherine's Hall, in the University 

 of Cambridge, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1681, 

 and of Master of Arts in 1685. His collection of plants is in the British 

 Museum, but many of his specimens are to be found in the herbaria 

 of Sherard and Du Bois at Oxford, The only plant which connects 

 him with Berkshire is Galium erecfum, in the Du Bois herbarium. He 

 died in 1715, and was buried in St. Andrew's, Holborn. His eminence 

 as a botanist is indicated by the name Buddleia, given by Linnaeus to 

 a genus of Loganiaceae. The letter No. 40 in the Richardson Correspon- 

 dence was written by Buddie. For further particulars of his life and 

 work see the DicHonary of National Biographxj, vol. vii. p. 222. 



James Sherard, younger brother of William Sherard, was born in Sherard, 

 1666. He practised as a Physician and Apothecary in London, and James. 

 made a large fortune. He cultivated at his country-house at Eltham, 

 in Kent, so large a number of plants that his garden was looked upon 

 as one of the richest in England. He collected a considerable number 

 of British plants, many of which are preserved in the Du Bois her- 

 barium at Oxford, others in the herbaria of Sherard and Dillenius at 

 the same place. He died on Februaiy 12, 1737, and was buried in 

 the church of Evington, near Leicester, where there is a monument to 

 his memory. It is recorded in the Synopsis that he gathered Linaria 

 repens at Henley, in company with Mr. Dandridge of Stoke Newington, 

 a friend of Ray's, and interested in entomology also. Notices of James 

 Sherard will be found in Pulteney, Sketches, vol. ii. pp. 150 2, and at 

 p. 123 of the Richardson Correspondence ; and of Dandridge in Nichols' 

 Literary Illustrations, i. 357 and iii. 782, and in the Richardson Corrc- 

 spondence, p. 204. 



John James Dillenius was born at Darmstadt in 1687, and studied Dillenius. 

 at the University of Giessen, where he took the degree of Doctor of 

 Medicine. In 17 19 he published his Catalogus Plantarum sponte circa 

 Gissam nasceniium, which established his reputation as a botanist. The 

 catalogue was arranged in the order of the times at which the plants 

 appeared in flower. In the circuit of about a German mile and a half 

 he found 980 species of Phanerogams, 200 species of Mosses, and 160 

 Fungi. In an article in Rees' Cyclopaedia Sir James Smith expresses 

 the opinion that ' this work contains accurate descriptions of many 

 plants before not well determined, with figures drawn and engraved 

 by himself of the parts of fructification, he having always been laud- 

 ably anxious to establish the genera of plants on solid foundations.' 

 The extracts from the Sherardian correspondence already given have 

 shown how Dillenius was induced by Sherard to come to England, 

 and how closely he applied himself to his labours on botanical subjects, 

 his first object being the completion of the Pinax, and next to that the 



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