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IX. Notea relating to Botany, collected from the Manuscripts of 

 the late Peter Collinson, Esq., F.R.S.y and communicated bi/ 

 Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq., F.R.S. and A.S., V.P.L.S. 



Bead April 18, 180^. 



Being lately on a visit to John Cator, Esq., of Beckeuham- 

 Place, and looking one day over his library, amongst a collec- 

 tion of books left him by his uncle, who married the daughter of 

 the celebrated Peter Collinson, I discovered several which had 

 formerly belonged to that eminent naturalist. One of them was 

 his own copy of Miller's Gardener's and Botanist's Dictionary, 

 the last edition published by the author, with the following note 

 at the bottom of the title page : " The gift of my old friend the 

 author to P. Collinson, F.R.S." This book contains a great 

 deal of his manuscript notes relating to the plants cultivated in 

 those days, both in his own gardens and in those of the most 

 celebrated of his contemporaries; with a complete catalogue of 

 the plants he had cultivated in his garden at Mill-Hill, and a Hat 

 of all those which he had himself introduced into this country 

 from Russia, Siberia, America, and other parts of the world; 

 also some original letters from Dillenius, Miller, Bartram, and 

 otliers ; and a short account of his own life, which appears not 

 to have been known to his Ijiographers. Mr. Cator having obli- 

 gingly 



