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royal conferred upon him, and was a man 
of very confiderable and various learning. 
To the knowledge of his profeffion, he 
added that of. natural hiftory, and antiqui- 
ties. He was, if not the firft, among the 
earlieft, who wrote on the antiquities of his 
country, on which he publiflied feveral 
learned works, to illuftrate, more efpecial- 
ly, the hiflory of Scotland during the time 
of the Romans. 
He publiihed," Scotia illustrata; 
Jive^ Prodromus Historic Natura- 
Lis Scotia : in quo regionis natura^ inco- 
lariim ingenia et mores ^ morbi iifque medendi 
methodtis, et medicina indigena explicantur^ et 
multiplices natiirce partus^ in triplici ejus reg-^ 
720 9 vegetabili fcilicety animali^ et miner ali ex-r 
plicanturJ' 1684, folio; and 1696, folio. 
In this volume, which^ he tells us, was 
the work of twenty years, one part is ap- 
propriated to the indigenous plants of Scot^ 
land • it contains obfervations on the medi- 
cinal and oeconomical ufes, A few rare 
fpecies m.ake their firft appearance in thi$ 
book, particularly that which Linn^us 
named Sibbaldia^ after the author ; and the 
Ligtifticum Scoticum. 
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