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and animadverfions on that author's tables, 
publiihed by Schmiedel from the col- 
iedions of Trew, in I753> in which the 
moft honourable teftimony is given to his 
abihties. I fufped he was in Switzerland, 
at the time of Gesner's death, and affift- 
cd Wolf in arranging the plants, and me- 
morials of their deceafed friend. 
There can be no doubt that Penny and 
Clusius were alfo perfonally acquainted. 
They appear to have had a ftrifl intimacy, 
and the latter was obliged to Penny for a 
variety of curious articles inferted in his 
RarioreSy and in the Exotica:. Dr. Penny 
brought from Majorca the hypericiim ha^ 
learicim, which Clusius named rnyrto- 
cijiiis Penn^ rafter him, as he did a gen- 
tian, now the fwertia percf2?ns. The fame of 
the geraniitm tiiberojum: The cornus her- 
baceay that beautiful native of the Cheviot 
hills, was finl revealed to the curious by 
this induftrious naturalift. 
Dr. Penny's acquirements in natural 
hiftory extended beyond the knowledge of 
plants. Pie is one of the firft Englifhmen 
whom I have met with, who had ftudied 
' G 3 ' infedts. 
