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1. An historical view of the taste for Gardening and laying 

 out Grounds among the nations of Antiquity. 1783, 8vo. 



This appeared, for the most part, originally in the Literary 

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2. An Essay on the preservation of the health of persons em- 

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3. Miscellaneous Tracts and Collections relating to Natural 

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1784. Elements of Modern Gardening ; or the Art of laying 

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WILLIAM CURTIS, F. L. S. was born at Alton in 

 Hampshire, in 1746. He was apprenticed to his grandfather, 

 then an Apothecary in his native town, and whilst in his novi- 

 ciate distinguished himself for his eager pursuit of Botany. At 

 the age of twenty he entered the service of Mr. Talwin in Grace- 

 church St. London, and who he eventually succeeded in busi- 

 ness. His love of Botany was however predominant, and dis- 

 posing of his trade he commenced Lecturerand Demonstrator in 

 his favourite Science. He first had a Garden at Bermondsey, 

 then a larger one at Lambeth, which he left for a third a t Bromp- 

 ton. In 1771 he published "Instructions for collecting and 

 preservingTnsects"and in the following year a translation of the 

 Fundamenta Entomologiee of Linnaeus with the title of" An 

 Introduction to the knowledge of Insects" — In 1773 he was 

 appointed Lecturer of the Chelsea Garden. He died in 177D 



