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C H A P T E R 25. 
*^ was endowed with an impregnating 
*^ power/' is due to 'England, 
Whether the true idea of this procefs 
originated with Sir Thomas Millington, 
to whom it has been afcribed, may juftly 
admit of a doubt ; fince Sir Thomas has left 
no written teftimony on the fubjedl; and 
Dr. Grew's mention of him does not im- 
ply that he actually received the idea from 
him. Add to this, that Mr. Ray, in the 
fummary view, of all Grew's difcoveries, 
which he has prefixed to his Hiftory of 
** Plants," does not once mention Sir Tho- 
mas Millington's name. Interefted as 
we muft fuppofe Mr. Ray to have been, 
in every difcovery relating to vegetables, 
and candid as he was in his general con- 
duft to the learned, it is not likely that he 
fhould have failed, in this indance, to ren- 
der praife where it was fo juftly due. When 
we further recoiled, that Dr. Grew had 
been fome years engaged in thofe micro- 
fcopical experiments, on the anatomy of 
plants, which, have rendered his name efti- 
mable with all pofterity, that vvhilft he was 
thus employed in ftudying fo intimately 
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