NOTES. 



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Belon, Rauwolf and others, had ah'eady travelled through the 

 other parts of tlie world, and Clusius also obtained from North 

 America many of the natural curiosities collefted by Sir Francis 

 Drake in his voyage round the world. The garden at Keio was first 

 arranged by order of the Princess Dowager of Wales, the aunt 

 mother of his Majesty, now reigning. 



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LiNN/Eus, as he frequently told his pupils, never ceased to esteem 

 Ray, as one of the most penetrating observers of the natural aninity of 

 plants. 



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TouRNEFORT found an opponent long before Vai llan t his pupil, 

 in Peter Magnol, of Montpellier, formerly his professor, whose 

 Charad,er Plant arum \id.s not printed till 1720. 



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LinNjT.us was the four hundredth and sixty-fourth member of the 

 Imperial Academy of Naturalists. Pie was received on the third of (3tto- 

 ber, X7,36, by the name of Dioscorides II. Br. Andrew Cleyer 

 born at Cassel, aftervvards first physician at Batavia, and a member of the 

 great council there, received the honourable title of Dioscorides I. 

 of that learned body, and professor John Burrmann at Arnsier- 

 dam^ was chosen in 1740, by the appellation of Dioscorides IIL 



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