SAMUEL DALE. 195 
September, 1693, and appearing in Phil. Trans., no. 205, vol. xvii., 
he er number, p. “hi is a letter ‘froin Dale to John 
Houghton on ‘‘ Bread made of neps in a scarce season,”’ that 
of 1698, dated December 6th; er in no. 211, vol. xviii., p. 158, 
is his account, in a letter, dated October 27th in the same year, to 
Dr. William Briggs, M.D., F.R.S., of “the case of a woman who 
laboured under an obstinate Jaundice, accompanied with that 
aris ; in which vision is quite - ost after sun-set and gradually 
eo as day-light comes again.” 
No doubt at this period of his life Dale, in pursuit both of his 
profession and of his hobby, closely connected as they then were, 
often extending into Suffolk. This is testified by the records on 
his authority in the two editions of Ray’s ‘ Synopsis,’ and by the 
generally dated labels of his (Dale’s) Herbarium. In this there 
are hardly any specimens earlier than the date of ‘the first edition 
of the ‘ Pharmacologia,’ nor does it contain records of his visits to 
London and more distant places prior to 1709. Like most botanists 
of his time he did not confine his atte ntion to flowering plants, 
and in the second sdition of the ‘ Syabeas’ (1696), in which Ray 
speaks of him as ei Botanice scientia penitus imbutus, sepius 
& me nec seni inudatus,” besides many other records, there is 
a short ‘*fasciculus”’ of fungi, received from him after the work 
ve be expected the sahrjen de in detail of the ‘ Historia Plantarum,’ 
in cri he ‘ Synopsis,’ suffered from gab ire 
genie of view which itp us the ‘ Methodus.’ He was, more- 
over, si ep is -two when the first edition of the ‘ ‘Symo psis ’ appeare ed, 
he relied upon Dale 
Black Notley, which is ‘but little more than a mile from Braintree, 
and, as he says plainly on many of his admirable herbarium tickets, 
Dale was able in many cases to show how plants had been not only 
ea ecg or wrongly placed in the ‘ Historia,’ but often repeated 
under two or three different names. 
In Phil “het: no. 288, vol. xx., p. 91, is ‘An account of a 
very large Hel, lately caught at Maldon i in husks: with some con- 
siderations about the capac ge = Eels, by Mr. ale,” da’ 
March, 1698. In no. 249, vol. x 50, is ‘Part of a letter of 
Mr. Dale from Braintree, fated Febrakey ‘ist, 1699, to Dr. Martin 
Lister, Fellow of rs College of BF ewe sand R. §., concerning 
_ several insects,” hich he sends ‘‘ Cervus yolans ” from Col- 
chester, Scarabs, Cantharides, and Tisits WARN: and notes sea-mice 
se ae * cochlew mari as observed at Harwich during the 
preceding summer. It was | Debahly at this time (1698) that Dale 
disvoweegth? the fossil shells of the Crag, for which, as he says in a 
later work, he received due credit from Dr. Woodward, . 
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