228 SAMUEL DALE. 
In 1781, besides visiting Eltham and the Chelsea Garden, w 
learn from his herbarium that he visited — of Sir Ch niles 
Wager and Mr. Grey at Fulham, and made a summer tour into the 
West of England. He visited Mr. Blaitwaite’s sm Wt at Dereham, 
Gloucestershire; was at Keynsham, between Bath and Bristol, on 
May 21st; went to Bristol, Bath, Wells and Glastonbury, an 
a sig oe aR into ree rs mc Po rm t Wimborne in June, 
and a are n e. s year is also t 
ied 1 ae reny note of his Geceitint saline from Peter Collison, 
~ leh voanes hom he ae in 1782. In this last year he was 
1733 and 1784. In 17384 he visited the Gog-and-magog Hills, and 
Dr. John Spurgeon’s garden at Halsted; and in 1786 Sa noble 
Lord Peter’s garden,” probably that at tcnsabin Hall, Kss 
ale’s last contribution to the ‘ Philosophical entisattniy) 
belongs to the close of the year 1786, and accompanied a 
present of a pair of antlers of the Moose deer to Sir Hans Sloane. 
It is entitled, « Deberiptions: of the Moose deer of New England, 
and a sort of stag in Virginia; with some remarks relating to Mr. 
Ray’s description of the flying squirrel of America” (Phil. Trans., 
vol. xxxix., p. 384). To this year also belong the earliest of his 
rently translated into paltry Dale sp a of himself as mer who 
have been more than 60 years from a hack: ” and elsewhere says, 
“T find a note or two wanting which I dare not trust m — 
Latin with, but hope your — me ergy my trou 
In this series of thirty-nine letters Dale speaks of ‘‘ my kind friend 
Mr. Mark Catesby,” and “ my respected iris nd Mr. tease Rand,” 
and also alludes = the death of the two sons of his * seohan Dr. 
hos. Dale,” who was resident in South Carolina. | 
e third edition of the « Pharmacologia’ was published 
uarto. 
letters ‘“‘M.L.” to the author’s name, and at its close the words, 
Ad calcem adjicitur Index duplex : Genaciis alter, nominum, &e., 
alter Anglico-Latinus; in gra atiam Tyronum, Tertia editio, multis 
emendatis et aucta.” As a frontispiece there is a fine portrait of 
the author, lettered “Geo. Vertue sculpsit 1787,” similar to the 
one prefixe to the present memoir, but surrounded by a frame 
inscribed, “ mtatis sue 78.” The letters ‘M.L.” no doubt signify 
Licentiate in Medicine; but I have as yet been ony to discover 
from what body Dale received such a di iploma. Of this work 
iene justly remarks, that “In an interval of more than forty 
ears, between the first and last editions... ... several excellent 
