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and is perhaps the most complete manual furnished 
on any subject.” It was published in 1800. 
Mr. Woodward, to whom the author presented 
this volume, says : 
“J return you my most sincere thanks for your 
inestimable present ; inestimable, guia pignus amt- 
citi@. I have been highly pleased with the Preface : 
the language is good, the style appropriate; but 
what I most admire is that unassuming display of 
knowledge which always informs so much more 
than it promises, and is the true characteristic of 
all my esteemed friend’s writings, unlike the gene- 
rality of modern authors, who promise mountains, 
and very often produce not even mole-hills.” 
17. Flora Greca.—A sketch of the origin of 
this classic Flora seems necessary in this place, to 
acquaint the reader with the occasion of its falling 
into the hands of the President of the Linnzan So- 
ciety, to arrange into shape and give to the world. 
The following is taken, in a very concise form, 
from the biographical memoir of Dr. J. Sibthorp, 
by Sir J. E. Smith, in Rees’s Cyclopedia :— 
“Dr. John Sibthorp, an eminent botanist, the 
youngersonof Dr. Humphrey Sibthorp, Professor of 
Botany at Oxford, was born there in 1758, and was 
educated and took his degree at the same University. 
“He passed a portion of the year 1784 at Gét- 
tingen, where he projected his first tour to Greece, 
and thence he proceeded to Vienna, where he stu- 
died with peculiar care the celebrated manuscript 
of Dioscorides, which has so long been preserved 
