﻿i the Department of 

 Botany of the British Museum. A brief entry of these appears in 

 Dryander's Catalogue (iii. 186), but some fuller account of it may 

 be worth putting on record. 



The volume of figures has a title-page and dedication, which 

 supply some material for forming an opinion of their author. The 

 former runs thus : — 



The Prodi* 



ss 



[ Nature of their 



To this succeeds the Dedication : — 

 "To 



Their Most Excellent Majesty's 

 The 



Tis a Great Pleasure "and Satisfaction to me to address this Work to your 

 Majesty's or even to have it in my Power by the assistance of Devine Providence 

 how to Your Gracious Majesty's my Indefatigable Industry; which if 

 jus Plain of Nature, from whence 



minutely considered throughout the Spacious Pte 

 I have Colled it will appear an Impossibility to the 



Severe, whereof I shall ^nakelio 



} to all, and through 

 )S and have now Con 



impleated my Desig 



till I come to England, where I hope to reap ap] 

 rith a few lines will conclude. 



Go the Whole World around and do proclaim r 



Reward I do not Claim, but such as is my due 

 for Plenty I enjoy, and that proceeds from you 



IDuty 



William Young Junr." 



:ne ngures in the book — "icones pictae, rudea," as Dryander 

 ribes them — are of the crudest kind, and show that Young' 



