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although the preface is dated May ist, 1804. Four fasciculi 
each of twenty-five plants, were to be issued yearly, and these 
were to contain a due proportion of alpine plants. “Since he 
first began his botanical excursions into the Highlands of Scot- 
land, in the year 1779, he is confident (and he hopes he may 
mention it without the imputation of vanity) that he has traversed 
more of the Caledonian alps than any other botanist has ever 
done. He has repeatedly ranged over the great mountains of 
Angusshire which surround the great district of Clova, where 
no one on a similar pursuit has ever preceded him. He has also 
searched the vast range of mountains which stretch about sixty 
miles through the district of Knoydart, in Inverness-shire, a 
region which had never before, nor has since, been examined by 
a botanical eye. He is the only botanist, too, who has explored 
the lofty mountains of Cairngorm and the great hills of the 
neighbourhood.” So he wrote in his preface. 
wo of these fasciculi appeared in 1804, Nos. III and IV in 
1805, Nos. V and VI in 1806, VII and VIII, although dated 
1806, did not appear until 1810, as is shown by a letter from Don 
to Mr. Winch,! and No. 1X, although also dated 1806, from its 
including Astragalus campestris, gathered in 1812, was probably 
issued in the latter part of that year or early in 1813. 
Don did not long remain at Edinburgh. Dr. Neill writes? :— 
“Mr. Don had not had experience in the cultivation of stove 
plants, and, it must be confessed, did not shine in that depart- 
* Iam much obliged to you for your kindness in saving specimens for my 
herbarium as I am now imployed in finishing my 7 and 8 numbers after a 
stand of nearly 4 years, for if I had not got Subscribers to enable me to have 
carried it on I could a predicted my Discoverys would a have been very 
limited in future, but although my subscribers are not numerous yet I flatter 
myself they are respectable and likely to continue—and on my part shall 
exert every endeavour to make them interesting—if I remember right I have 
sent you the new plants which I have given in my 7 and 8 numbers, which 
are Campanula persicifolia, Sagina maritima, nova species, Potentilla 
opaca of Linn., Rottboellia filiformis. 1am to send you a package for Mr. 
Harriman, thi I beg you will take the trouble of forwarding along with 
yours if you would have the goodness to send the specimens be have 
collected for me, and I will get some of them to help my 9 and 10 
ma in Corresp. Linn. Soc.; George Don to N. J. Winch, 18th Pub. 5 iG. 
oi. 
. RRO Notice of the late Mr. George Don of Forfar. 
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