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SAMUEL DALE. 
(Concluded from p. 197.) 
Havine discharged his duties as Ray’s literary executor, Dale 
pemirued to a own work, and in 1705 published a te hig to 
qua. 
bulk to the oeaen work. His continued interest in Botariy during 
the few succeeding years is evidenced by his letters to Sloane. In 
1706 he writes :—‘‘ The death of Mr. Doody hath = extinguished 
my hopes of seeing the ‘ Plantarum Lacummpints um Historia,’ he 
was so long about, published, unless his plates aaa notes fall into 
some good hand.’’ On September 8rd, 1707, he writes :—‘‘ By the 
coach this day I sent a Hanch of Venison for you and some of m 
friends to eat together, but directed to your house... . the Persons 
I desire may be at eating are yourself, Dr. Robinson, Mr. Stone- 
street, Mr. Buddle, Dr. Thorp, and Mr. Petiver.” From a message 
sent with the haunch, Dr. Thorp appears - have been compara- 
tively a stranger, as he speaks of him as ‘the Physitian 
assists in the Transactions, whose [name 9) at present I cannot 
1708 he seems ee ~~ — a few choice plants for pre- 
sentation to Dr. Sloa They are in vol. 94 of eg cage 
" 
m 1724. In 1709. ba he visited the garden of his friend 
Halon, at Welwyn, Herts, went to Hampton, and in July paid his 
only — visit to the Oxford Garden, from which Bobart after- 
wards sent him specimens. In 1710 he seems to have been at 
Norah ‘and at Chislehurst, and at the De Beaufort Garden in 
Chelsea. In the same year he published the second edition of the 
‘ Popo aiiocra incorporating the Supplement of 1705, but 
oe the duodecimo form. In 1711 he visited the garden of 
u 
garden at ei and received specimens from Charles Du Bois 
of Mitcham; and i nd he was at Waltham Ab 
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