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Turner — Anecdotes of his life — Account of hif 
writings 'preceding the Herbal — His Herbal : 
the firft original book of Botany ^ publijhed in 
England — An account of that work — Contem- 
porary Botanijls mentioned by Turner, as 
Falconer, Wooton, Merdy, Clement — Tur- 
perV book on ^^/^j— Turner not fuffciently ap^, 
predated by fucceeding Botanijts. 
TURNER. 
/ J ^ H E hiftory of Englifh Botany to this 
JL period, from its imperfed:, and even 
barbarous ftate, may perhaps not unaptly 
be cpnfidered as the fibulpus age of the 
fcience among us. But we are now arrived 
at the true Era of its birth in England. 
I cannot call it the reftoration, lince this^ 
nation, like Italy in the flourifhing ftate 
pf Rome^ had never been enlightened by the 
writings of Greece, It was much later be- 
fore the works of thofe fages reached thi§, 
kingdom. Manufcript copies of the Patres 
Box AN J CI, as hath been before obferved, 
were 
