108 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



On the West side stand these words : 



"Placed here in the year 1737 

 Sir Benjamin Rawling Kn't, Master. 



Mr. Joseph Miller 1 Wardens .» 

 Mr. Joseph Richards J 



[T. I. p. 457.J Ray's Herbarium. 



In a room up in the Orangery there is preserved 

 as a great rarity, the collection of plants which the 

 great Historicus Naturalis, Joh. Rajus or Ray himself 

 collected and arranged, and with his own hand wrote 

 the names under. Mr. Ray presented this collection a 

 week before his death, which took place the 17th January, 

 1706, to his good friend and neighbour, Mr. Samuel Dak, 

 author of the well known Pharmacologia. [T. I. p. 458.] 

 Mr. Dale afterwards in his old age gave this as well as 

 his own collection of plants to the Physic Garden at Chelsea, 

 to be preserved for ever. The plants in Mr. Ray's 

 Herbarium were sewn with cotton on to the paper in 

 large paper books. The whole collection consisted of 

 about eight or twelve such paper books in folio. In some 

 places the plants had been cut out, for Dr. Sherard had 

 borrowed this collection from Mr. Dale, and when he 

 had found any plant, which was either rare, or he thought 

 much of, it was said that he had either clipped or cut it 

 out, so that the books had been sufficiently mutilated.* 



Mr. Philip Miller, in whose charge this garden is left, 

 is and no mistake a great Horticulturist, Tragardr 

 mastare. So much the better to be able to judge of 

 this, I will mention one thing and another, which throws 



* This is one of the most interesting accounts in the whole of Kalm. 

 William Sherard was at Smyrna from 1702 to 1718, therefore the mutilation 

 of Ray's Herbarium must have taken place between that date and Sherard's 

 death in 1722, at the age of 69. Sherard bequeathed his Herbarium con- 

 taining 12,000 species of plants, to the University of Oxford. [J. L.] 



