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nature that if published, will yield a satisfaction to foreigners in 
particular ; 
‘The petitioner also further most humbly sheweth, that his 
collection will consist of upwards of two hundred copper-plates, of 
m 
ber, 1783, Lindsay contributed “An Examination of the Hypo- 
thetical Doctrine of Water-Spouts, in Opposition to the Ingenious 
Speculations of Dr. B. Franklin of Philadelphia, F.R.S., by the 
(Memoirs, “a surgeon and expert botanist,” who 
‘‘ discovered Cinchona brachycarpa in the parish of Westmoreland, 
Jamaica, in 1785.” An account of this plant and of Quassia poly- 
gama, or bitter-wood of Jamaica, was published by Lindsay in the 
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (iii. 205, 1794), of 
which Society he was elected a Fellow in 1793. That he was a 
ans, 
clear account of his discovery of the germination of the spore, 
formation of the prothallium, and development of the oung fern. 
I : 
* Britten & Boulger, Biographical Index of British and Irish Botanists, 
