194 SAMUEL DALE. 
known as ‘ Fasciculus Stirpium Aaa alia post editum Plant- 
arum Angliz Catalogum observatarum a Joanne Raio et ab amicis,’ 
which consists only of 27 pages. It cies several plants collected 
by Dale in various parts of Essex, 2 he is again spoken 0 
“* medicus et pharmacopeng, ” ¢.e. both as physician and apothecary. 
In the Preface to the ‘ Synopsis Matodies Stirpium Britannicarnm’ 
(1690) he is styled ‘“« Pharmacopeus, Brantrie in Essexia Medi- 
cinam faciens.’ 
In 1692 Dale sent to Plukenet a specimen of Malawis paludosa, 
which was figured by the latter in his ‘ Phytographia’ (1691-2), 
247, and in the same year commenced a series of 84 letters from 
him to Ridatiewliak are extant (Sloane MSS. 4042), and extend 
from June, 1692, to February, 1736,—and his contributions to the 
‘ Philosophical Transactions, which are nine in number and occur 
rom vol. to vol. xxxix., 4. e. r the same term “of years. 
The first of these (Phil. Dana no. 197) consists of queries as to 
‘‘ Entalia, Dentalia, Blatta byzantina, Purpura and Buccina of the 
shops,” and his earlier letters to Sloane consist mainly of enquiries 
is pati 
more — for suggestions as to the various editions of the 
‘Pharmacologia.’ This, Dale’s chief published work, first appeared 
in Paleaiiig in 1693, ite full title sya a Dale Pharmaco. 
logia, seu Seale, ad materiam medicam: in qua Medicamenta 
Officinalia Simplicia, hoe est Mineral Vegetabilia, Animalia, 
eorumque te in Medicine officinis usitata, in methodum natu- 
ralem digesta succincte et aateeie describuntur. Cum notis 
generum Characteristicis, Specierum Synonymis, ‘differentiis et 
viribus. Opus Medicis, Philosophis, Pharmacopzis, Chirurgis 
utilissimum.’ It is dedicated ‘‘ celeberrimo collegio Regali Mei 
corum Londine sins! by the ‘ devotissimus autor,’ and w 
perhaps the first systematic work on the subject. In the Prtase 
he acknowledges the assistance of Ray, Sloane, Tancred Robinson, 
Plukenet, — of the king’s garden, Dr. Martin Lister, F.R.5., 
oody, keeper of the Chelsea eer a James Newton, and 
makes alo. ‘thi is importan 
— Anglice scripte et lucem favente Numine, aliquando 
ure ; taceo opuseulum hoe leviusculum et impolitum sed Tyron- 
ibus haud inutile. 
Thus it would seem that Dale, eS years the junior of Ray, 
ei acaked Willughby (who died in 1672) as his disciple and 
fellow-worker, a relation which sintnced en them for the 
usar ahh i and twenty years (1679-1705) of Ray’s life. 
Since there is a long review of the ‘ Pharmacologia’ in no. 204 
of the ‘ Phiseoe hical ‘Transactions,’ published in October, 1698, 
the work must we appeared earlier in the year; thus preceding 
Dale’s three next communications to the Royal Society, which 
belong to the same year. The first of these is ‘‘ An Account with 
figures of three Saxon coins dug up at Honedon in Suffolk,” dated 
