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Robert MorisoUj Professor of Botany, at Oxford, and John 

 Ray, sometime Fellow of Trinity, Cambridge. To these two 

 men. Great Britain is indebted for being the first to raise Botany 

 as distinct from Medicine to an exact science. 



Hooke, author of " Micrographia," which was published by 

 the Royal Society, in 1665, gave in it his records of enquiry into 

 the anatomy of plants. 



Salmon's Herbal, published in 1710, was the last noticed, it 

 has been a popular work, but like all these works becomes rarer 

 to meet with as times goes on. It is a large thick folio consisting 

 of 752 chapters, each representing a genus and describing the 

 different species ; it again reverted to the alphabetical arrange- 

 ment, but notwithstanding this its botanical descriptions are 

 very good. 



Copies of the following works were exhibited in illustration 

 of the subject of the paper : 



Arnold de Nova Villa, Vicenza, 1491. 



Lobel^s Stirpium Adversaria Nova, Antwerp, 1576. 



Gerard's Herbal (Johnson's Edition), London, 1633. 



Morison's Plantae Umbelliferae, Oxford, 1672. 



Salmon's Botanologia, The English Herbal, London, 1710. 



A small and scarce work of Dodoens, illustrating certain 

 plants, published in 1551, which was lent for the occasion. 



