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HlSTOUy OF BOTAN\". 



find the first notice of the twofold sex of plants, which doc- 

 trine he had learned from Thomas Millington, a professor in 

 Oxford. 



Th^ same British Scientific Society also published the ex- 

 cellent and peculiar investigations of Marcellus Malpighi, a 

 professor at Bologna, who died 1694, in the Anatome Plan- 

 tarum, 1675 and 1679? in folio. 



A citizen of Delft, named Antony Leuwenhoek, who died 

 1723, also contributed very much to the establishment of this 

 science, by his minute investigations respecting the structure 

 of plants. 



The French Academy of Sciences, founded in 1665, also 

 distinguished itself by discoveries respecting the structure and 

 nature of plants ; its first members, Claude Perrault, who 

 died 1688, Denis Dodart, who died 1707, and Edme Ma- 

 riotte, who died 1684, having instituted a multitude of in- 

 teresting investigations, especially respecting the nourishment 

 of plants. 



445. 



Joachim Jung, a German, bora in Lubeck, and Professor 

 at Hamburgh, who died 1657, first improved the technical 

 language, and published in his lectures more accurate notions 

 respecting the relations and nomenclature of plants. Al- 

 though his Opuscula were first published a hundred years af- 

 ter his death, at Coburg in 1747, yet copies of his Institutes 

 had been circulated in Great Britain, and the natives of that 

 country, who appeared as reformers of scientific botany, fol- 

 lowed, according to their own confession, these copies. 



Among these Britons, the first was Robert Morison, a 

 Scotchman, who, during the usurpation of Cromwell, lived in 

 France, and afterwards was Professor at Oxford. He died 

 in 1688. We have already (211.) mentioned his Praeludia 

 Botanica as the work in which the first critique on the ar- 

 rangement which at that time was in use is found. He also 

 laid the foundation in tbe same work for a better discrimina- 

 tion of genera. He became chiefly meritorious by the publi- 

 cation of his Historia Plantarum Universalis, which appeared 



