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Body of the Work, yet there remained some Difficulty to the 
Learner, who could not so readily find the Explanation of a Wor 
where they are drawn up, in a scientific Order, as by an alpha- 
betical List. The whole Work is corrected and enlarged by an 
this kind, Prudence bids him be silent.” 
ho was this “ingenious and worthy Gentleman’? Sir 
J. E. Smith states (Engl. Fl. i. p. xii.) that Lady Ann Monson 
helped Lee; had the latter another helper? Could he have 
intended to bring out an introductory volume himself, but 
suppressed it in favour of Lee, merely contributing the glossary ? 
ese are questions which I cannot answer; but 1 hope some 
one may be able to solve these problems. 
. Daypon JACKSON. 
LX.—Wuo was Dr. Bonnam ? 
Parkinson’s Theatrum Botanicum (1640) is stated on its title- 
page to contain “the chiefe notes o 
others.” I do not recall any specific mention of Dr. Bonham in 
at—and 
acknowledged—use of the work of Caspar Bauhin. As Pulteney 
circumstance which probably largely led to Ray’s systematic 
citation of Parkinson’s book. It occurs to me, therefore, that the 
“Bonham” of the title-page may be merely a misprint for 
“ Bauhin,” which may well have escaped the eye of the author of 
the Theatrum, who was seventy-three years of age in the year in 
which it was published. 
ere was a Dr. Bonham, however, whose name occurs in 
Foster's Alumni Oxonienses, and in the Dictionary of National 
Biography (vol. v.). Thomas Bonham, it appears, was educated 
at St. John’s College, Cambridge; graduated as B.A. in 1584, and 
* Sketches of the Progress of Botany, i. 144. 
+ History of Botany in the United Kingdom, pp. 51, 60. 
} Op. cit. p. 149.-. - - 
