SAMUEL DALE. _ 229 
cape had taken place abroad, which, aided by the i improve- 
at home, enabled Dale to et better materials, and give 
last edition the importance of a new work. Scarcely in ee ech 
ere &@ more copious woliookions of synonyms.” It i haps 
necessary to explain nm this edition was followed by piel shale 
after the tt of the uthor 
be justified in quoting it pests: stirpes agris nascentes 
melius ediscant Pitieiaatont Juniores, sex per Seoathioe Plantas 
investigandi gratia instituit eadem Societas itinera (mense Julii 
excepta) quibus confectis, ray nomina inter Tyrones quisque 
indicat ; qui per estivam tempus maxime omnium profecerit 
(J udicio Preefecti, &c.) Raii Bénbpel Raipies m Britannicarum Per- 
gamena, viridi pote tore na Laborum accipit oe m. At Grande 
Iter eadem caus nse Julii ages. ora nequaqua. ; 
quod quidem reerersiren centum annos dicalaiuns videtur 
Clarissim S ah oak in Itinere t 
a ergo suscepti & decem sociis in agrum Cantianum, 
0 Domin hee habet: Paucis abhinc elapsis annis con- 
meio vere lawless inter rei herbarie studiosos ae bis a 
Seepius quotannis ae aut quatriduum iter Plantaru invest 
gationis ergo suscipere. Quorum quatuor Itinera dente’ ; 
1632, 1634 & 1641 nes edidit. Vetus hic Mos jam desiit observari 
in modum supra dictum; sed nunc horti Prefectus mense Julii, 
cum quinque vel sex sociis rei Botanice peritis, in Cantium aut 
as 
oO 
and 1682, the two Hampstead lists of the same dates, and 
‘ Mercurius Botanicus’ of 1634. 
The last letter to Dr. Birch is dated August, 1788; but io 
this, and the fact that he collected specimens in the Chelsea 
Garden durin ring that year, we know nothing as to the test few 
months of Dale’s life. He died on the 6th of June, 1739, bein 
then about eighty years of age, and was buried in the Dissenter’s 
Burial-ground at Bockin 
Tn the ‘ Gentleman’s Magazine’ he is described at his death as 
Dr. Samuel .R.S.; and many notices of him speak of his 
ever, seems never to have received or used the title o 
name does not occur in Dr. Thomson’s list of the Fellows of the 
Royal Noaiake. nor in that by ag Munk of the Licentiates of the 
College of Physicians. Ther in fact, no reason to suppose that 
either of these three titles ahs goa rightly applied to him. 
