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CHAPTER 28. 
negledted merit ; or whether from other 
fources, I cannot determine. It was how- 
ever probably unfavourable to Plukenet, 
fmce Sloane was at that time rifmg faft 
into reputation, and influence. In the mean 
while, no obftacles damped the ^ zeal of 
Plukenet ; he w^as himfelf at the expence 
of his engravings, and printed the work at 
his own charge, until the publication of 
the laft part, his Amaltheuniy when he pro- 
cured a trifling fubfcription from a few of 
the nobility, amounting to about fifty-five 
guineas. Towards the clofe of his life, he 
is faid to have been afiifted by the queen, 
and to have obtained the fuperin tendency of 
the garden at Hampton Courts and was ho- 
noured with the title of Royal ProfelTor of 
Botany. 
I cannot difcgver the exad: time of his 
deceafe ; but it is probable he 'did not long 
furvive his laft publication, in 1705. 
There is a copper- plate print of Dr, 
Plukenet, done in the 48th year of his 
age, prefixed to the Fhytographia ^ with his 
arms, field ermine, bearing a bend dexter 
engrailed gules, 
Plukenet 
