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his 
works, however, much remains to be cleared up with reference tS 
their manner and time of issue. Some facts of importance from 
forgotten sources have come to light, and it seems desirable to place 
these on record. 
One of the chief peculiarities of L’ Héritier’s publications is that, 
although they were prepared at the time indicated, 1 none of them ap- 
turp 
deliberately ve ting his works was (Journ. Paris, No. 51, Mar. 
1789) that he had promised subscribers four parts in the year, and 
_ that the dates were those of the years in which they should have 
appear 
The ete to the first part of the Stirpes Nova is dated 8 Dec 
1783. The six parts bear date—Fasc. i. & ii., 1784; Fase. iil, -vi., 
Q 
it is founded on a misapprehension of the ‘“Conspectus” of t 
seventh part, which was simply a prospectus. Several not aitobethar 
successful attempts have been made to clear up the actual dates of 
pitta ion of these parts. Dates are given in the bibliography in’ 
rtus Kewensis, but evidently the earlier parts had only been: 
prt after L’ Héritier’s visit to England, for the record stands— 
Fase. i. & ii., 1784 ; iii., 1785 ; ity 1788 ; v., 1789; and: vi., *‘ not 
yet published’’ (Hort. one ew. i. 21). Otto Kuntze (Rev. Gen. iii.: 
157) follows this version in the dates of the first four parts, gives 
‘‘ Jan. 1789” for the fifth, ae ‘*1 Semester, 1789"’ for the sixth, 
basing his conclusion for the last on the fact that Lamarck, in the 
Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique, tom. iii. 1789, quotes 3, not always 
correctly, from the sixth part.t This apparently inevitable con- 
From announcements and notes by De Lamétherie in the 
Observations sur la othe the following facts sd be gleaned :— 
ce. i. and ii., though printed off, had not been ai in 
Th i 
4 ; : 
t, by inference, Fasc. i., cree in March, 1785 (xxvi. 808). The 
next reference, Fasc. i. as. ave cone out at the e time, o 
very soon after. This i: borne out by L’Héritier’s pw letter to 
Dryander, picts 2 Age Seah in which, though the work is not 
named, he says: € vous prie d’accepter l’exemplaire ci-joint, 4 
Végard des Prospectus, j j'ai pa que personne n "étoit plus en état 
L’ Hériti erlooked by his biographers 
throws some ‘int nah ‘the cain of his Pe ays: ‘1’ ei botanische Ar- 
dert Zeichnungen fir die é s und das Sertum 
Anglicum fertig, allein die gelehrte Welt, dérfte in verschiedenen Jahren noch 
nichts davon sehen ” (Usteri’s Annalen der Botanick, Lt 170 (1791) ). 
T k’s did appear in i h 
citation of it in the preface to Caivanilles’ Decima Dissertatio Botanica, asicd 
1 Feb. 1790. 
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