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tain in every case what he described. The great herba- 

 riums of Buddie, Uvedale, &c., still kept in the British 

 Museum, are indeed supposed to supply in a great measure 

 this defect ; they having been collected by persons who 

 had frequent communications v^th Bay, and were well 

 acquainted vdth his plants. Whatever he had preserved 

 relative to any branch of natural history, he gave a week 

 before his death to his neighbour, Mr. Samuel Dale, 

 author of the ' Pharmacologia.' Nothing is said of his 

 library, which was probably inconsiderable. His pecu- 

 niary circumstances were very limited, for he merely con- 

 formed as a layman to the chmxh of England, and was 

 unwilling to subscribe what was requisite for receiving 

 preferment. He is recorded, nevertheless, to have dis- 

 approved of separatists from the national church, justly 

 disgusted, probably, by the contentions and fanaticism he 

 had seen throughout the greater part of his life. His 

 principles and feelings soared far above the fastidious dis- 

 tinctions which marked the orthodox or the heterodox of 

 those times, and his mind was uncontaminated with their 

 passions. His good sense might well lead him to regret 

 that those who had so lately escaped a most tremendous 

 common enemy should be so prone to quarrel amongst 

 themselves. It is an honour to both these parties that 

 they have been emulous to claim him as their ally. 



In the preceding review of the literary productions of 

 Bay, more numerous, as Haller says, than those of any 

 other botanist, Linnaeus excepted, we have been obliged 

 to pass over several things of less note ; such as his lists 

 of native British plants, for Gibson's edition of Camden's 

 ' Britannia,' and even a variety of communications to the 

 Boyal Society. Neither have we touched on the principles 

 of his botanical system, that subject being explained at 

 length by our predecessor, the late Bev. Mr. Wood, under 

 the article " Classification."* Those who are anxious to 

 peruse a more full and critical investigation of his works 

 and studies than it has been possible to give in this place, 



* In Rees's Cyclopaedia. 



