196 SAMUEL DALE. 
Whether previously acquainted with Petiver or not, it is not 
until after the visit of the latter with Buddle to Ray, in 1699 (Sloane 
MSS. 4089, fol. 275), that the 24 letters to him from Dale, 
which are preserved i in the Sloane collection oe MSS. 3322), 
commence. The first of these, dated May , 1700, exhibits 
that interest in the “ herborizings of the ate of Apothecaries 
which appears in many ways in Dale’s life. It opens thus :— 
‘‘Dear Pettiver, Hapnin upon the Orchis Anthropophora 
O s Foe 
I have sent you some against your herborizing day tom 
The plants mentioned are Aceras anthropophora and C shee aranifera. 
In another letter, dated October 28rd in the same year, is the 
es reference to Ray’ s work at the third volume of the 
“Mr. Ra 
‘ Hist ay is now F denice Dr. Sherrard’s plants, 
and if ek to communicate yours they _ be very acceptable to 
ee My service to Dr. Sloan & uddle. 
Tt was pr 
Dale, especially after his teacher’s death, was Seiagit into such 
close intercourse with London botanists. He may possibly have 
had an earlier herbarium; but among the earliest in date o the 
specimens now in the British Museum, some few of which go back 
to 1692, are plants received from Dr. Edward Bulkley at Madras, 
between 1701 and 1712, and from a eloras of Mr. DuBois, of 
itcham, who was at Fort St. Ge eorge (i.e. Madras), in 1703. 
After Ray’s death. and still Ais after the year 1710, he seems to 
have visited London frequently, and the number of correspondents 
whom he exchanged plants serra increase 
hil. Trans. no. 291, vol. xxiv., p. 1568, is the letter to 
Edward Lhwyd on the fossils in aeeik Cliff, dated February, 
1703, in which Dale enumerates twenty- eight species of Mollusca, 
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the Crag at Bawdsey and elsewhere. Since the encroachment 
of the sea has now removed all the Crag that then capped Harwich 
Cliff, Dale’s observations possess more than a merely historical 
interest, and have been duly made use of in the ‘ Memoirs of the 
Geological Surve 
From a letter from -him to Petiver, dated June 9th, 1703, 
deterring e a visit of Compton to Ray, it is perhaps worth while to 
quote the poten: sentence :—‘‘ The Bishop of London, in a visit 
he did Mr. Ray the honour to give ae ae acquainted him that 
Mr. Tournefort’s Corallarium was o England, and that 
Mr. Newton’s Herball hath been alte site ablabed. ” The work 
here alluded to was probably that ‘ Enchiridion Universale Plan- 
tarum,’ of which, according to Dryander, only the first book was 
printed (See Trimen & Dyer, ‘Flora of Middlesex,’ p. 889). With 
reference to its author’s acquaintance with Ray, the following 
herbarium-label of Dale’s, which probably refers to some time prior 
to 1695, when Ray recorded the Secrets for Trifolium ornitho- 
podioides in Gibson’s Camden, may be of interest: ‘‘ Fonum 
grecum humile Acie Ornithopodi alicia brevibus erectis tak 
Synop. iii. 331, .. Mr. Jos. Andrews gave me this speci- 
