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he remained at Kew as foreman till 1801, when he was appointed 
assistant to Robert Brown, the botanist attached to Flinders’s voyage 
ен shortly after Good caught fever, and died at Sydney in June 
1808. His collection of seeds, however, was forwarded to Kew 
Francis BAUER. 
А striking picture of the activity and energy which were employed 
in augmenting the Kew collections in the eighteenth century, is 
afforded by the younger Aiton’s preface to Francis Bauer's ** Delineations 
of Exotic Plants cultivated in the Royal Gardens at Kew ” published in 
auer was an Austrian, who, coming to England in 1788, was, 
by the iiberality of Sir Tep уте and with the King’s sanction, 
attached as draughtsman to the Botanic Garden Banks not merely 
id his salary during TE own life, but provided for its continuance 
after his death. 
“А variety of circumstances have concurred, since the publication of the Hortus 
Kewensis, by whic the number of curious има ная сма the Royal Gardens 
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erial increase; Mr. М n, w travell sa 
botanist, at His Majesty’s expense, for twenty-five š ever so fortunate in 
furnishing abundance of fresh seeds and living plants as during his last mission to 
the Cape of Good Ho The settl = of a col n ast of New South 
Wales has opened to a fresh sour f botanical wealth, in a climate nearl 
congenial n i of thi bd share h een transmitted to Kew, by 
Arthur Philip, Esq., the Governor. W Bligh, п ander of Н. 
‘ Providence,’ who was sent to the South Seas for the purpose of carrying the bread- 
fruit from thence to the British Colonies in the West Indies, and had orders to 
replace such of the useful plants as might die during the passage or be deposited 
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the expedition could procure, has also been enabled to place in Kew Gardens some 
hundreds of species, natives of the East or of the West Indies, which had never 
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* No ev however, bave so materially regez to the increase of the Royal 
бос аи as that desided. Ag aie which our most gracious Queen has of late 
condescended to bestow upon the s menm of betas >, ч the rapid progress Her 
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prius. of thei’ eloved Queen ; individuals have vied with each other in present- 
ing t w Gardens "ag plants as e" thovght likely. to make an acceptable 
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honiewat pansiges i in aki care a the vegetable produce of the climates 
ey had visit ited, anxious to furnish on their return any degree cf increase to Her 
Majesty’s amusements. The Directors of the East India and of the Sierra Leone 
Companies [Afzelius was зоа to the latter Company in 1794] have pz 
to Kew Heke plants as their ants abroad were able to procure for them; and the 
Government of Jamaica has pen a paoti present to Her Majesty, of plants ним 
“ Amidst the uniform protection which the Royal owner of these gardens has 
constantly afforded to every species of science, Botany had not a right to expect 
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increase of plants ; new houses have been b upon a most ample scale, and of a 
mstruction ; the garden itself has lately тестер a considerable 
addition of space ; р the whole has laid out, under His esty’s immediate 
direction, in a manner so commodious, that it is ek only vei of metet the 
whole of the present Collection irem but rof en ving е additions as may 
probably be made to it for several years to co ы 
