Number of copies of Lord Bute’s Botanical Werks, extant :— 
i Bute - 2 One of the copies sold at Mr. Tighe’s 
l sale in Mack 1798 "m 120. « supposed 
to be nm by the Earl of Gains- 
borough.* 
The Quee - 
Empress ed Büseis - 
Sir Joseph Banks : 
M. De Buffon - 
Lady By. Mackenzie * 
Lady Ruthven - - 
Lad E 
Duchess of Portland: - 
Mrs. Barrington - 
r. Dutens - 
At the King of France's Library. 
Now Lady Bath's. 
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The full title of the work runs thus 
otanical T ‘ables 
containing the different Familys of 
ritis ants 
eem sois by a few rid Ping 
ructification rang’ 
à Synopeldal method. 
[1788.] 
[Drawn and engraved by J. Miller- 
Johann Sebastian Mueller.] 
We have not been able to find a single date connected with the work 
except that given above in brackets, which is in the first volume of the 
-— Museum copy, and probably in the handwriting of Sir Joseph 
A. detailed collation of the work would be rather tedious, as the 
; olum 
letterpress of 51 pages, entitled “ iieodabrión to the ded dale of 
Plants.” This is said to be wanting in the Banksian copy, now in the 
British Museum ; but Prenden i includes it in his collation, at the sid of 
volume i., as tho ough bound in w 
In this volume of the Windsor d are the two following nctes, on 
evidently from the nature of the contents th rd B 
“Notwithstanding the Gracious Rece this work met with it 
is now sent with the utmost diffidence, for eee gee subject is 
pleasing, is in truth of too trifling a nature to m the flattering 
They are an Introduction to the General History of Vegetables, a very 
extensive Plan great part of which is Bone or there remains still too 
much for a m an at the Extreme of Life to 
It may be takon as probable that the dai at which these notes were 
written is about 1785. Lord Bute died from the effects of an accident 
in 1792. 

* This note was pencilled by pE EEY, and inked in afterwards apparently 1 by 
another den we are informed by Mr. B. Daydon Jackson, who kindly made 
the transe 
