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Other herbals as those of the Frenchman L’Obel and the 
Dutchman Dodoens in several editions and a series of the earlier 
works of the Englishman Ray, as well as a number of eighteenth 
century books on the natural history of the West Indies and South 
America, add materially to the usefulness of the Library. 
Numerous books treating of the ornamental aspect of gardens 
and plants are among the new acquisitions, the most valuable 
of which is undoubtedly a fairly well preserved copy of Crispin 
de Pass’ “Hortus Floridus,” printed in Arnheim a year later 
than the Hortus Eystettensis. It is a small oblong folio bound 
in vellum containing plates and descriptions of a variety of familiar 
garden plants proper for the four seasons of the year. Each o 
the four parts has a title-page depicting a formal Dutch garden, 
showing in detail the quaint geometric, sparsely planted beds 
and pleached galleries supported on sculptured columns, so dear 
to the Flemish artists of the time. 
Among the new acquisitions are several editions of Pliny’s 
Natural History and a number of editions of Mattioli’s ““Com- 
mentaries of Dioscorides,” the latter containing most interesting 
illustrations. 
More modern botanical works are represented by several 
copies of Linnaeus’ works, not heretofore in the Library. One 
interesting little pamphlet is the ‘ Orbis eruditi judicium,” printed 
at Stockholm in 1741, of which it is claimed that it is one of the 
four that are known to be in existence. It is Linnaeus’ Afo/o- 
gia pro vita sua, and is the only thing he is ever supposed to 
have written about his own life and work. It is a small octavo 
_of sixteen pages and begins with the record of the date of his 
birth, 1707, following which are various occurrences of his life up 
to 1739, an enumeration of his printed works, then already a 
formidable list, and a list of those of Van Royen, Gronovius and 
others, who in their works had followed his teachings, and ter- 
minates with a series of criticism of Linnean works from writings 
or unpublished letters. It is undoubtedly one of the rarest of 
pamphlets. 
A partial set of the great illustrated Danish botany, “ Flora 
Danica,” in eighteen folio volumes has been completed after several 
