MORISON'S WORKS 19 



The Pars Prima, that was to have been devoted to Trees 

 and Shrubs, was never written. All that exists to represent it, 

 is a stout MS. volume in the Library at the Botanic Garden, 

 Oxford, apparently in Bobart's hand-writing, containing a classi- 

 fication and an enumeration of the species of trees and shrubs, 

 which may possibly have been written with a view to publi- 

 cation. 



A most interesting feature of Bobart's Pars Tertia is the 

 Vita Roberti Morisoni M.D. with which the book opens, written 

 by one of Morison's intimate friends, Dr Archibald Pitcairn. It 

 is the source of all the available information regarding Morison 

 up to the time of his coming to Oxford ; after that time much 

 may be gathered concerning him from the records of the Uni- 

 versity. It is also a loyal defence of Morison and his system of 

 classification against the criticisms to which, even then, he had 

 been subjected. It concludes with a personal account of Morison, 

 in which he is described as being " vigorous in body, having 

 a mind trained to every kind of study, of ingenuous manners, 

 calling a spade a spade, eager for true knowledge, a despiser of 

 filthy lucre, considering the public advantage rather than his 

 private gain." A portrait of him, here reproduced, forms the 

 frontispiece to the volume. 



Such was the life of the man whose botanical works are now 

 to be considered : works that are not nearly so numerous as they 

 are considerable, as will be seen from the following enumeration 

 and brief description of them. 



Praehidia Botanica, 1669 : a small 8vo volume of about 500 

 pages, which consists of the following parts : 



(pp. I 347): Hortiis Regius Blesensis Aiictus. 

 (pp. 351 459): Halliicinationes Caspari Baiihini in 

 Pinace, item Animadversiones in tres Tomos Universalis 

 Historiae Johannis Banhini. 



(pp. 463 499) : Dialogiis inter Socintn Collegii Regii 

 Gresham dicti et Botanograplmni Regiuin. 



Plantariini Umbelliferarnm Distribiitio Nova, per Tabidas 

 Cognationis et Affinitatis, ex Libro Naturae observata et detecta^ 

 1672. 



Plantarum Historiae Universalis Oxoniensis Pars Secunda, 



