FOT 
Hering themi as a fpecies of literary pageantry, more ee 
dudtive of envy to the patron, than of advantage td the 
cauthor. 
Tn the contefts between the fcliows and licentiates of the 
they be collected together, would conititute an ample and 
ufeful volume. {See Dr, Lettfom’s Life of Dr. F.) He 
is faid to have written nearly an ids letters in rs Ga- 
zetteer on the ubje o the new pavement ; and he was 
inceffantly eyeveeger Soletal) iiuts for the improvement 
of this great c e who firft fuggefted the plan 
.of bringing ith by and ane, in order to hi reak a mono- 
poly, which had highly enhanced i price of fr efh fifh in 
all the markets about London. the approach of the 
fevere winter of 1467, he propofed a ee aa liberally 
contributed to raife a fund for the purpofe, ‘of purchafing 
fifh at a wholefale cheap price, and of difpoling of it ata 
i lofs, till the whole fubfcription fhould be expended. 
ociety, a fupported the meature, which was con- 
erie till 1 in the fam afed pened in 
Lancafhire tropo- 
lis, But ae upititaton ad the faa at Ackworth, i 
Yorkhhire, of w the projector in 1778, a 
which yaa was a tibera benelator, both during his eae 
id by his mott i oe ied: lee which 
him 
ufficient to mention one inftance, in the cafe of his worthy 
ut unfortunate friend, the late oe Gowin Knight ; who 
applied to 7 Fothergill i ina moment of pecuniary ditt refs, 
d returned with a heart fet at ae 7 the noble benefac- 
tion of a sboufand guineas. 
n aaa re- 
e the mo ceflary, w 
Harpur ae ont enlarged the circle of his 
regular go gou 
of: urine, fen whi ch he eared in about | three weeks, 
preffed the nec 
ution of a cat chete er. 
quakes’ burial 
‘tiles from’Lon 
“The perfon of ‘Dr. ‘Fothergill was of a delicate rather 
his condu se that he was not apt to forfeit: - efteem which 
: he had once a 
8 
? OT 
ar fudden neat te here was a charm 
fation and addrefs dae conciliated the regard and confidence 
of all who employed him, and d fo difcreet and uniform was 
i tings, -with the exc 
gural thefis «© De Emeticorum Ufu” fens is pee ved in 
Smellie’s * Theta us”), ane his * Account of the putrid 
fore-throat,’” confift principally of papers printed- in the 
Piilofophical Tranfations. of the Royal Society, and 
in the ** Medical Obfervations and Inquiries,’ a work of 
which volumes were publifhed, and which is known and 
collection, to which the name of Dr. Fothergill is aie 
we — - he was the author ef the three anonymou 
P fourth volume, which conftitate the ‘sth, 
- alfo publifhed f{everal little 
ave been collected and reprinted by Dr. eat in 8vo, 
1781, and by Dr. Lettfom in ato in 1784. e Dr. 
ea er piace a Dr. Elliott?s ae of Dr. 
m’s Account of Dr. F.; and Dr. Thomp- 
fon’ 8 Life of ‘Dr. Fotherpill; alfo Lond, Med. Journal, 
vol. iv. p. 176. 
FOTHERGILLA, in Botany, juftly ferves to com- 
memorate the late John Fothergill, M.D. F.R.S. who, 
ME kes not a uldaae on Botany, = sarees plas to the 
feience, by introducing a great num 
chiefly from ce alps of Europe ae fon Fre whic 
he cultivated with fuccefs in his garden at Upton, 
readily" eg aeons to his friends.-——Linn. Suppl. 42- 
Ait. Kew. v. 2.241. Schreb. 922. Willd. Sp. Pl. 
Ve 2s Mart Clafs and 
. Mill. Dia. Vv. 2. . 408 
en ees Digynia Nat. d. dm mentacea, Jul, 
Gen. Ch. Cal. Pe rianth of one leaf, bell-thaped, 
clofe, 
fhort, erineated. permanent. Cor. none. Stam. Filamenta 
numerous, thread- eee thickened upwards, much longer 
than the calyx ; anthers minute, aay ee gular. if? 
ens , ¢ mbined, ovate 3 two, awl. thaped, 
terminal, the length of th famine, "ence Oo mple. Peric 
Capfules rigid, each of one cell and two valves. Seeds fos 
tary, bony. 
. Calyx inferior, truncated, entire. Corolla none, 
Germens combine d. Capfules of two valves, Seeds foli~ 
nifolia. Native of oat and a hardy fhrub 
glith gardens. There are two varieties, one with 
blunt leavee figured in John Miller s Icones Plantarum ; 
the other w = -aente o 
Jacq. Ic. » 100. 
fhallow ae towards their ends, and are hoary beneath. 
The flowers appear chiefly in May, at the ends of the 
branches, in the form of cue ‘oblong {pikes or catkins of 
‘no great beaut 
ty. 
FOTHERING, in Sea Language, i is a peculiar method 
of endegvouring’ to ftop a: leak in the bottom of a a 
whi 
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