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their wrath on the grandson of the. Mr. Gray 
their ! | gr ot . Gray, who translated th 
có ian en Botanica’ of Linneus for his friend Mr Lee, w in 
ook first introduced the Swedish Botanist's scientific writings to English 
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aders. Mr. Haworth, who was present, was so ispleased at what he 
called an unjust and underhand combination to c ha g naturalist 
that he made a codicil to his will desiring that his collection of British 
epidoptera, arranged after and being the ty his * Lepidoptera 
or its cause. The cause assigned was that in the “ N atural Arrangement of 
work as “ Sowerby's English Bot 
President, which 1 may declare was perfectly unconscious and uninten- 
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mith made 
roofs of the descriptions. At the same time 
ical articles to Rees’ Encyclopædia, a kind of * Species 
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the alphabet. I suppose, considering 
Linnean shells were not arrangec, 
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for me, he replied that the 
t Mr. Gray —J. 
Mr. Sowerby’s friends might see them excep 
On THE GENDER OF “PAN y 
Hongkongensis,' printed in the 13th volume of the 
Journal, Í observed, —with reference to 
von Mueller, that Panax was masculine in Pliny,—that, 
appended :— inine in Pliny: 
heracleon, alii sideritim, et apud nos millefolium vocant, etc. 
"Nat. xxv. cap. v. s. 19.—»ec. L.S." The passage in question was per- 
fectly familiar to me when I penned my remark, and the annotator 1$ 
unquestionably mistaken in his construing, and, a uence, in the 
conclusion he draws. he entire section commenees thus n Invenit et 
Achilles discipulus Chironis gua wederetur, gue ob id Achilleos vocatur. 
w its gender. To this remar ine the 
‘ Aliqui et hanc panacem 
Hist. 
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