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various uses of each vegetable. They exhibit a 

 proof of the author's veracity, which I conceive it 

 is difficult to parallel in any other work." " The 

 voyage of Dr Sloane was productive of much sub- 

 sequent benefit to science, by exciting an emula- 

 tion both in Britain and on the Continent. Sir 

 Arthur Rawdon, upon viewing his splendid col- 

 lection, sent James Herbert, a skilful gardener, 

 to Jamaica, who returned with a ship almost laden 

 with plants, in a vegetating state, and with a great 

 number of dried specimens. Of the latter, Sloane 

 had all such as were new, before he published his 

 first volume. Many of the living plants succeeded 

 in the garden of Sir Arthur, at Moyra, in Ireland ; 

 and many were distributed into the garden of the 

 Bishop of London, at Fulham, Dr Uvedales at 

 Enfield, the Chelsea garden, and especially that 

 of her Grace the Duchess of Beaufort, at Bad- 

 minton, in Gloucestershire ; the botanic gardens 

 of Amsterdam, Leyden, Leipsic, and Upsal, 

 shared these varieties. Tournefort sent Dr 

 Gundelscheimer, his associate in his oriental 

 journey, into England, to view Sloane's plants, 

 and this gave occasion to Plumier's expedition 

 into the Caribbee Islands."* 



Sir Hans Sloane was ever ready to promote 

 the interests of science, by his purse and his 



* Pulteney's Origin and Progress of Botany, vol. ii. pp. 

 7981. 



