IV ADVERTISEMENT. 



to the world, by the proper remarks that 

 might be made on them. The traveller, 

 the sailor, the husbandman might, if they 

 pleased, draw the most useful conclusions 

 from them. The reader may receive the 

 proof from his translations of various es- 

 says, the productions of the Linn^an 

 school; his own Calendar of Flora, 

 and Observations on Grasses. How 

 much to be lamented, is this short cata- 

 logue of the works of so great, so good a 

 man! I speak not of his Essay on Music, 

 as foreign to the subject. Some of his 

 remarks appear in my British Zoology. 

 He thought me so far deserving of his 

 encouragement, as to dedicate part of his 

 time to farther acts of friendship. I re- 

 ceived the unfinished tokens of his regard 

 by virtue of his promise ; the only papers 

 that were rescued from the flames, to 

 which his modesty had devoted all the 

 rest. 



Defended by so great an example (how- 

 soever unequally I may follow it), there is 

 hardly any need for an apology for the 



