4 C H A P T E R 27. 
literature, by Sir 'Jacob and Sir Andrew 
Balfour. 
The Garden was eftablifhed about the 
year 1680 ; and, in 1683, was fo fuccelT- 
fully cultivated by James Sutherland, 
the intendant, that it is faid to have con- 
tained 3000 fpecies of plants, difpofed ac- 
cording to Morison's method. An ac- 
count of it w;is publifhed under the title 
of " HoRTus Medicus Edinburgen- 
SIS y or, a Catalogue of the Plants in the 
Phylic Garden at Edinburgh^ containing 
their moil proper Latin and Englijh 
names." By Jajnes Sutherland. 8°. 
pp. 367. Varieties, however, occupy a 
large fliare of this Catalogue, and very few 
of the native plants of Scotland are found 
in it. It was to Sir Robert Sibbald that 
the firft attempts towards indigenous bo- 
tany were owing, 
Robert Sibbald was a fellow of the 
College of Phyficians at Edinburgh, and 
the firft medical profeffor inftituted in that 
univerlity, about the year 1685. He was 
knighted by Charles II. and had alfo the 
title of king's phyfician and geographer 
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