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was dead, and the whole to be sold for the benefit of the widow. As 
the Dr. made no collection of dried plants he e proposed it to me. 
directly to me. It accordingly arrived consisting of 29 large paste- 
board covers filled with plants loose on sheets of paper ; the purchase 
money, charges of carriage, duty etc. of which amounted to £39. 
As yet however I have not been able to have the name of the person 
who collected it. 
o this Brown adds: ‘So far Sir Joseph: in Dryander’s hand 
in Lani follows, ‘ It was Dick.’ ’’] 
Horr. Gorpon. 
James Gordon, an old, experienced nurseryman, inventor of 
many improvements in the art of cultivation. His nursery grounds 
lie on the right hand of the road from Mile-end to Bow soon after 
you enter the parish of Bromley. In the war 1776 being then very 
old, he gave up business to his sons and a Mr. [Dermer 9) who im- 
mediately added large stoves to the gardens. [He died 1789. Biogr. 
Index Brit. Botanists, 70.} 
JOHANNES DE LourEyro. 
John de Loureyro, a Portuguese by birth, and a Jesuit, resided 
Company’s service a small collection of plants a with descrip- 
tions of them in Latin, which prove him to be a man of education 
and abilities: both the plants = descriptions are in whi possession 
through Capt. Riddel’s kindne 
[On the title-page of his Flova Koskinen ne does not 
describe himself as a Seon but as “olim ind Catholics 
Fidei Preconis.” He w s, however, a J sa until the suppression 
of the Society in 1773.) 
Horr. Dut. Prrcarrn. 
[William] Pitcairn M.D., in the year [1775] President of the 
College of Physicians, established in the year a botanical 
Sila at Islington, from whence by his favour I have from time 
o time received many “Saludbie specimens. [Biogr. Index, 136; 
Rees Cyclop., under preg: 
J. R. & G, Forster. 
John Reynhold Forster and George his son embarked in the 
year 1772 on board the Resolution, Capt. Cook, bound to the South 
Seas on discovery, sent by the Board of Admiralty ; the father as 
was voted by the House of Commons to ena r. James Lind of 
Edinburgh, M.D. t 5 caanacaie oe, but hag vote having passed 
4n vague terms, it was thought proper to apply it to the benefit of 
the voyage of discovery in that manner. On their return they did 
