tween Sutherland, and George Pres- 
ton, whom Blair ftiles an indefatigable 
botanift, and who published, about the year 
1710, the following Catalogue, written 
in Latin and EngliJJj : Catalogus omnium- 
Plant anim quas in Seminario Mediciu'^z dicta 
tranJluUt Georgiiis Prestonus, Bot. Prof, 
et Hort. Edinburg. Prcejeciiis ex AuBoritate 
ejus.'' l2^ Not having feen this volume, 
I can give no account of it. A writer of 
the fame name occurs, though I know not 
whether the fame perfon, as a correfpon- 
dent of Mr. Ray, See his Letters, p. 308 
• — 316^ Some Obfervations on Mr. Ray's 
Synopjisy" by Dr. Preston, tending to 
illuftrate the characters of about fifteen 
fpecies of Englifi plants ; with feme Stric- 
tures on Touknefort's method of claffi- 
fication. 
In the year 17^6, Mr. Charles Alston 
fucceeded Preston as fuperintendant of 
the Garden. 
ALSTON. 
Charles Alston, as we are informed by 
Dro Hope, was the fon of Mr. Aljlony of 
Eddie w CO d'^ 
