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and medicinal uses, and the vernacular names, when known, are sub- 
joined. The same method is pursued in a subsequent part of the journal 
with regard to the plants and animals of Greece, and everything that 
could be recorded relative to the medicine, agriculture, and domestic 
economy of that country and the neighbouring isles. The illustration of 
the writings of Dioscorides in particular was Dr. Sibthorp’s chief object. 
The first sketch of the Flora Greca comprises about 850 plants. 
‘This, says the author, ‘may be considered as containing only the plants 
observed by me in the environs of Athens, on the snowy heights of the 
Grecian alp Parnassus, on the steep precipice of Delphis, the empurpled 
mountain of Hymettus, the Pentele, the lower hills about the Pireus, the 
olive grounds about Athens and the sterile plains of Beotia.’? Having 
continued his journey through Greece, and its various islands, he reached 
Athens in June 1787. From thence he prosecuted other journeys, ascending 
Mount Delphis in a storm of wind and rain. The scenery of Mount Athos 
made a great impression on him. He then visited Thessalonica, Corinth, 
and Patras, returning to England at the end of the year. His health, 
never very robust, had suffered materially, from the privations he had 
undergone, but his native air gradually recruited his strength. During 
his stay in England, Bauer was engaged in making his drawings of the 
animals and plants collected in their recent travels. Dr. Sibthorp for his 
merits, had an increased stipend granted him, with the title of Regius 
Professor. In the spring of 1788 he entertained Sir Joseph Banks, Mr. 
Dryander, and Sir James Smith, for a week, and they found that Sibthorp 
was not satisfied with the result of his labours, Accordingly in 1794 Dr. 
Sibthorp set out on his second tour to Greece, his health suffering much 
on the journey to Constantinople. In company with Mr. Hawkins he 
made an excursion into Bithynia, and climbed to the summit of Olympus. 
In September they passed down the Hellespont, spent two days in 
examining the plains of Troy, and then proceeded to Imbros, and Lemnos. 
They then passed ten days in investigating the district round Mount 
Athos. Their journey next led them to Skiatho, hence to Negropont and 
by the Pirzus to Athens. In November they proceeded to Patros and 
Zante. In February they visited the Morea, making in two months a com- 
plete circuit of the peninsula. The Violet and Primrose welcomed them 
in the plains of Arcadia, and Narcissus Tazetta, which Dr. Sibthorp was 
disposed to think was the true poetic Narcissus, decorated in profusion the 
banks of the Alpheus. Proceeding to Argos and thence to Mycenz they 
returned from Hermione by land to Argos. April and May were spent 
in visiting Cardamoula, Calamata, Cephalonia, and Preversa. The 
weather had been very unfavourable and Dr. Sibthorp caught a severe 
cold from which he never recovered, a miserable journey to England 
occupying till the autumn of 1795. The climates of Devonshire and 
Bath were tried in vain, and he died of consumption at Bath in February, 
1796, at the early age of thirty-eight. ‘No name has a fairer claim to 
