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Anatomical Museum. At the age of 79 Bobart was forced by the Vice- 
Chancellor, Dr. Skippen, to resign the chair, and a few months after died. 
Consul Sherard writes in that year ‘he was surprised to hear that he was 
compelled to resign,’ and says, ‘they ought to have allowed him to spend 
the short remainder of his days in the garden.’ Bobart was buried in the 
churchyard of St. Peter’s-in-the-East. His portrait appeared in the 
Oxford Almanack for 1719. Dr. Abel Evans in 1713 dedicated Vertumnus, 
a poetical epistle, to him: Select Collection of Poems, 1780, vol. iii. 145. 
In the Philosophical transactions for 1683 is » paper by Bobart on the 
effects of the great frost, which happened in the preceding winter, on trees 
and other plants. 
In Buddle’s plants in the British Museum is the following letter by 
Bobart (kindly pointed out to me by Mr, Carruthers): 
Oxon. April 4, 1707. 
I am now to be thankful to God and my friends that I have not only 
seen, but had the perusal of as I think the best collection of its kind in 
the world, and is as instructive as admirable, if the intellectuall is the best 
part of mankind certainly whosoever contributes to that is the most 
amicable and performs the greatest part of humanitie. I retwn y® Book 
of Mosses w‘t as many thanks as there leaves among the said Mosses to 
web T have sometimes added a Plant and sometimes a note w" I offer to 
y™ Maturer judgment to be ejected at pleasure if anything of my en- 
deavour prove pertinent, I have my aime, you will S*, easily find my 
imperfections and defects hy this enclosed Bill, any of which if to be 
spared, would prove very acceptable to my small collection, and heartily 
give thanks that you have been pleas’d to open our eyes, that we may the 
better discover the wealth of oure owne country. I being now sensible 
that we have pass’d over diverse wt¥out sense of distinction. I hope you 
will safely receive y™ book sent by Mr. Bartlett to the Swan at Holborn 
bridge carriage paid, and if y™ candour will prompt you to excuse the 
Libertie I take of this inclosed note you will add obligations to Si* 
Your most obliged servant, 
J. Bopart. 
In the Sloane collection of MSS. 1038 there is a Catalogus plantarum 
horti Oxoniensis earumque que pariter in pagis silvis pratis montosisque 
juxta Oxoniam locis nascuntur. 
This is an alphabetical list of plants cultivated in the Botanical Garden 
with their English names, but without native localities or date. After 
a list of the garden plants is another, which may be the plants met with 
in the vicinity of Oxford such as Cerinthe Honey Wort, Cauda Muris 
Mousetail, Filipendula Vulg. Water Dropwort, Filipendula Dropwort, 
Gramen tomentosum Cottongrass, Galium luteum, Ros solis, etc. It 
evidently belonged to an apothecary, as at the end there is an interesting 
list of drugs with prices. 
Edward Sandys, D.M. of Wadham, succeeded Bobart. Judging by 
