Liieraiy Journals. 55 



and afterwards purchased it ; and the collection now makes a 

 part of the British Museum. The plant which was named after 

 our author was the Petiveria, of the class and order of Heptandria 

 Monog7jnia. It being then a newly-discovered plant, the ge- 

 nus was dedicated, by Pluraier, with many compliments, to 

 Mr. Petiver. See Pultney's Historical Sketches of the Progress 

 of Botany, Vol. II, 31-43; Sir James Edward Smith's Corres- 

 ^ondenceofLinrKeus, &c. Vol. II, 161, Sfc. 



XVII. 1709. " Censura Temporum." The Good or 

 111 Tendencies of Books, Sermons, Pamphlets, ^-c, impartially 

 considered, in a Dialogue between Eubulus and Sophronius." 

 Printed for H. Clements, at the Half Moon, in St. Paul's 

 Church- Yard, Vol. I, for the year 1708. " This work was pub- 

 lished monthly in small quarto, 32 pages in each number, and 

 the first volume containing 384 pages concludes with December, 

 1708. A preface to the first volume was given with the last 

 number, which concludes thus : " If any of my readers shall 

 at any time have committed to paper any notes or remarks 

 upon new books, or old ones reprinted, which they are willing 

 the publick should have the benefit of, they would be pleased to 

 transmit them to the bookseller for the author of these papers, 

 who i^will take care to have them printed, and annext as an 

 appendix to the dialogues, with or without mention of their 

 names as they shall direct, and be ready to return his thanks." 



In the last page of the volume is an intimation that the 

 work would be resumed with the new year, but how long the 

 publication was continued I have not been able to learn. 



About this time, viz. in 1707 and 1708, a book containing 

 much interesting matter was published, entitled the " Phcenix, 

 or a revival of Scarce and valuable Pieces, no where to be 

 found but in the Closets of the Curious." In two volumes 

 octavo ; but, as this work was not printed periodically, it does 

 not properly belong to our class. 



XVIII. 1710. " Mbmoius of Literature, containing a 

 large Account of many valuuljle Books, Letters, and Disserta- 



