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Royal Society— //j" influence in -promoting natural 
hiftory. 
Chelfea Garden — Herhorizations — Endowed hy 
Sir Hans Sloan's.— Highly advantageous to bo- 
tany — Dermnftrators — Rand — Miller. 
Celebrated gardens after the Revolution — Hamp- 
ton Court — Badminton — Duke of Argyle's 
— Uvedale's. 
Bifljop Compton — brief account of — a patron of 
boiany — Hirrfelf a real botanifi — His fine gar-- 
den at Fulham—C//^^/ to Ray, Plukenet, and 
Petiver. 
Doody — Not an author — Cryptogamia clajs 
greatly enlarged by him. 
R O Y AL SOCIETY, 
AMONG thofe public inftitutionSp 
which in a lingular manner invigo-- 
rated, in this period, the fpirit of natural 
hiftory in Englano!, the Royal Society 
oi Londo?i claims the moil diftinguifhed no-- 
tice. In its delign, as in its progrefs, it 
was the foflering parent, and guardian, of 
Vol. II, H natural. 
