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number of illustrious examples might be produced 
to the contrary; none more eminent than the ex- 
cellent author of this work.” | 
2. In the following year Sir James published 
A Dissertation on the Sexes of Plants, translated 
also from the Latin of Linneus; which he inscribed 
as a token of respect to Dr. John Hope, Professor 
of Botany in the University of Edinburgh. 
Of both these works an edition was printed at 
Dublin in 1786. 
3. Disputatio Inauguralis quedam de Genera- 
tione complectens.—The Thesis which entitled him 
to the degree of M.D. at Leyden, 1786. 
It is dedicated to Robert Batty, M.D. 
4. Reliquie Rudbeckiane.—The President’s next 
literary work was the republication of the wooden 
blocks of Rudbeck, in 1789. 
In his introductory discourse, Sir James informs 
us, that “at Upsal, under the auspices of the great 
Rudbeck, was laid the foundation of what Mr. Stil- 
lingfleet has justly called an unrivalled school of 
natural history, and which was destined afterwards 
to give laws to the rest of the world. Rarely has 
such a variety of profound and extensive learning 
been united as in Rudbeck. In antiquities, espe- 
cially those of the northern nations, and in the 
learned languages, his knowledge was unbounded. 
In botany he had erected to himself what might 
reasonably have been thought a ‘monumentum ere 
perennius’, in one of the greatest undertakings of 
the kind, a collection of fine wooden cuts of all the 
plants then known. They were to have been ar- 
