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sk with great dignity and reputation. InlCS7he went to 

 the island of Jamaica^ in the character of physician to the 

 Duke of Albemarle, and touched at Madtira^ Barbudves, 

 Nevis, and St. Kitts. He remained in Jamaica about iif;;eeii 

 months; returned to London in 1689 ; was chosen Secretary 

 of the Royal Society in 1693 ; created a Baronet on the ac- 

 cession of George I. to the throne of Great-Britain, bcng 

 the first English physician on whom an liereditary title of ho- 

 nour had been conferred ; was advanced to the Presidency of 

 the Royal Society in 1727; and died in 1752. To Sir Hans 

 Sloane the science of Botany is greatly indebted. His dis- 

 coveries in the West-India islands were very numerous and va- 

 luable. These discoveries, though actually made in the se- 

 venteenth century, were not fully laid before the public till the 

 beginning of the eighteenth. In 1707 he published the first 

 volume of his great work, entitled A Voyage to the Islands 

 Madeira^ Barbadoes, &c. and in 1725 he completed it, by 

 the publication of the second volume. This work may be 

 considered one of the most valuable presents made to bota- 

 nical science in the course of the age. — Pqlteny's SH'tches. 



HOUSTOUN. p. 141. 



Dr. William Houstoun, an English botanist, early in 

 tlie eighteenth century, twice visited some of the West- India 

 islands, where, on his second visit, in 1733, he died. By his 

 labours the exotic botany of England was greatly enriched. 

 Elis papers coming into the possession of Sir Joseph Banks, 

 were published in 1781, under the following tide — RcUquice 

 Houstouniame^ seu Plantarum in /hnerica jMeridicnali, ci 

 Gidiebno Houstoun, M. D. F. R. S. &c. — Pulteny's 

 Sketches. 



Plumier. p. 141. 



Charles Plumier was born at Marseilles, in the year 

 1646, and after receiving a classical education, at the age of 

 sixteen, entered into the order of iMiniine Friars. He studied 

 botany in a convent at Rome ; and after paying considerable 

 attention to this branch of natural history in his own coun- 

 try, he made three voyages to the West-india islands and the 

 neighbouring continent, chiefly for the purpose of botanical 



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