ihe late Dr. Pitlteruy. 295 



his warmed admiration. Along with the account of his 

 works, memoirs of his life are interwoven, chiefly extrailed 

 from the different writings of Linnasus. In the prefatory 

 advertifement Dr. Pulteney fpeaks with great niodeliy of his 

 performance, which, however, was very well received bv the 

 friends of natural hiltory, and obtained for him the prefent 

 of a medal from Stockholm, as an acknowledgment of the 

 iudice he had done to the fame of the illullrious Swede. 

 Many judicious obfervations and valuable points of informa- 

 tion are interlperfed in the work. It concludes with a fvnop- 

 tical account of all the papers contained in the firlt feveii 

 volvmies of the Amoeintates Academics. 



Some years afterwards a more extenfive and original work 

 proceeded from Dr. Fulteney's pen, and which mult have coft 

 him much varied refearch in its compoiirion. This was his 

 " Hiftorical and Biographical Sketches of the Progrefs of 

 Botany in England, from its Origin to the Introduction of 

 the Linnaean Svftem ;" 2 vols. 8vo. 1790, He paid a juft 

 tribute to fcicntific merit in dedicating the firft volume of this 

 performance to Sir Jofeph Banks ; and a grateful return to 

 long friendfhip, in infcribing the fecond to Sir George Baker 

 and Dr. Garlhfliore. The work itlelf is highly valuable, as 

 an example of that union of th? hiftory of men with that of 

 an objcft of their common purfuit, which is fo peculiarly 

 intercfting and inftruftive. It has likewife made an addition 

 to national biography, which will be duly prized by thofe 

 who are attached to their country's reputation. It is marked 

 throughout with that candour and difpofition to commend 

 which always chara6lerized the amiable author. 



Whilft he was thus tracing ihe progrefs of his favourite 

 fcience in books, he was by no means inattentive to the 

 volume of nature as it lay dilplayed before hin). The county 

 in which he refidcd is conlidcrably furnifhed with objofts 

 worthy the notice of the naturalirt, efpecially in the foffil 

 kingdom. How well he had made himfclf acquainted with 

 thcle treafures, the prefent writer obtained a proof, which 

 laid him under a particular obligation. This was a brief but 

 maflerly account of the produils of Dorl'ctfliirc, communicated 

 to him for the ufe of his little work entitled "England Deli- 

 neated." He afterward* enriched the fecond edition (if Mr. 

 Hutchins's " Hiftory of Dorfetdiire" with a catalogue of the 

 birds, flicUs, and plants obferved in that county; and during 

 his laft illnci's he had under revifal a plate of Durfcidiiie fofTils 

 •.onimunic.atcd bv himfclf. The formation of a mufo'uui was 

 the amufemcnt of many years of his life. By gradual addi- 

 'ions, he accumulated a ftore of natural produdiions in various 

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