flR. DARWIN. 99 ' 



a turgid and iblemn coxcomb, whofe 

 morals were not the beft, and who .was 

 vain of lancing his pointlefs fneers at Re- 

 vealed Religion. 



Jackfon admired Sir Brooke Boothby, 

 and worshipped and aped Dr. Darwin. He 

 became a ufeful drudge to each in their 

 joint work, the tranflation of the Linnean 

 lyftem of vegetation into Englifh from the 

 Latin. His illuftrious coadjutors exacted of 

 him fidelity to thcjcnfe of their author, and 

 they corre<Sed Jackfon's inelegant Englifh, 

 weeding it of it's pompous coarfenefs. 



The Dodlor was probably difappointed 

 that no recruits flocked to his botanical 

 ftandard at Lichfield. The young men of 

 the genteel claffes in that city devoted 

 themfelves to profeffions with which 

 natural hiftory had no infeparable con- 

 nexion. However ufeful, entertaining, 

 and creditable might be it's ftudies, they 

 felt little defire to deck the board of fef- 

 H 2, fion, 



