N. B. Whoever can give any Hints towards the Life of Mr. Petiver or bis Family, the Favour 

 will be gratefully acknowledged by 'Their- mojl obedient humble Servant, 



J. MILLAN. 



THE indefatigable ingenious Mr. Petiver had the greater!: advantages, in compiling this 

 Work, that a man could wilh, by his intimacy with Sir Hans Sloan, Dr. Lifter, Mr. Ray, 

 and all the great men of his time, at home and abroad. He was a great aihftant to Mr. Ray, 

 Sir Hans Sloan, &c. in their works's has wrote many papers in the Philofophical Tranfactions, 

 and had correfpondents in moft parts of the world, who generoufly fent him the productions of 

 all the parts they travelled" to. He died Apothecary of the Charter- Houfe, univerfally regretted,. 

 April 4, 1 7 1 8 . aged about 60. He is quoted, and efteemed as thej)eft authority, by Linnseus, 

 and moft other natural hiftorians. He was admitted Fellow of the Royal Society, Nov. 27, 1695. 



Mr. Ray had a great regard for him, as may be feen in his Hiftory of Plants, Synopfis, &c. 

 printed in 1688, 1690, 1696, &c. 



VOL. L Pag. 



l~\IreBions for Travellers ' - 1 



*^ 1 56. Gazophylacium Naturae & Artis 

 Catalogus Claliicus & Topicus 

 2-2. Above 400 Amboina a?id Eaft-India 



Shells, &c. - '.. ' - - 2 



Mufei Rariora Nature 

 238 Englifh Land and Water Beetles, in 



16 ClaJJes - - - 12-18 



26 Humble - Bees, See. in five ClaJJes - 18 

 28 De Animalibus Cruftaceis, Echinatis, 



Stellatifque Britannicis 

 19 FreJh-V/ater Fijkes 

 42 DeCochleisTerreftribus acFluviat.Brit. 

 39 D e P e &- i n i b u s , P e £hi n c u 1 i s , & O ft r e i s B r . 

 26 Foffilia Cantiana ; FoJJils found in the 



Chalk-Pits of Kent 

 25 Sheppey FoJJils - 

 59 FoJJils at Pyr ton- Paffage in G loucefterfh . 

 112 Merian\r Surinam Infects 

 Snails and Worms Hermaphrodites in a 



double Senfe 

 Ray' j- Method of T 



unglifh Trees and Shrubs 



b. 



20 

 ib. 



21 

 ib. 

 ib. 



22 



Illuflrated 



26 

 26 



J d 



Herbs of the fame Clafs have fimilar Virtues 

 10 Virginian Wafps, Bees, &c. - - 



VOL. II. 



2. Rudiments of Botany - 

 82. Ray'j- Englifh Herbal and Catalogue ; 



864. Plants, 



Sec. 



7. Hoi tus Peruv. Chili, &c. or South- 

 Sea Herbal; 133 Plants 

 7. Italian and Egyptian Plants, &c. 120 

 S 23. Pteriagraphia Americana; 506 Ferns, 



Corals, Sponges, Muf rooms 

 6. Papilion. Britan. about 164 Englifh 



Butterflies ■ 

 Monfpelienfes Plant re ; 460 Plant's 

 Plantar Silefia? rariores, &c. 

 Piantse Etrurias rariores, &c. 

 Cat. Collectania Petiver. of 1080 Articles 

 Gramin. Brit. Concordia; above 400 Eng- 

 lifh Fungus's, Mojfes, &c. 

 Hortus Siccus, Chirurgicus, & Pharma- 

 ceuticus - - 



Pag. 



29 



3° 



12 



Printed for J. MILLAN, near White-^Hall. 



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 Figure. Collected, drawn, and engraved, by the Author, il. 5s. 



III. Sheldrake's Herbal, on a Hundred and Eighteen large Folio Copper-Plates, drawn in the 

 moft mafterly Manner from the Originals when in the higheft Perfection. 



IV. Sheldrake on Heat and Cold, for Green-Houfes, is. 



V. Columella on Agriculture, by Gibfon, Quarto, 14s. 



VI. Letters from a P erf an in England to his Friend at Ifpahan, 3s. 



VII. Hill's Hiftory of the Royal Society, -j«fe. 6d. 



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