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C H A P. 15. 
RetroJpeBive view of botanical Jclence hi the period 
immediately antecedent to Ray — A detailed ac" 
€ount of the life and writings of Ray — His 
Catalogus Cantabrigienfis — Ray'j three firfi 
hotanical tours — Appendixes to the Cambridge 
Catalogue — Foreign travels -^Fourth tour in 
England — Ele5fed fellow of the Royal Society, 
RAY. 
IF we here take a retrofpeftive view of 
the progrefs of botany during the firfl 
period of the feventeenth century, we find 
that, however particular individuals, both 
in England and on the continent, might 
have laboured in its advancement, it was 
not, on the whole, in a flourifliing ftate, 
either here, or in any other part of Europe. 
From the time of the Bauhines, even 
to that of Ray, its progrefs as a fcience 
was flow. The Remains of John Bau- 
HINE, his Hiftoria Plant arum Vniver- 
falisj' printed in 1650^ in three Jarg^ 
folio 
