Llhwyd. 1 1 1 
cated. On the refignation of Dr. Plot, 
he fucceeded him as keeper of the AflomQ- 
l(^an Mufeum, about 1690. He travelled 
repeatedly all over Walesa w^ent through the 
North of Scotland ; into Ireland^ in which 
kingdom he feems to have made fome con- 
liderable abode. Hefpent fome time in Corn-^ 
wally and in Britany in France^ in fearch of 
antiquities, and materials to carry on the 
extenfive defigns he had formed. 
In all thefe journies he was conftantly 
attentive to the objefts of natural hiftory, 
foffils, plants, and any remarkable phasno- 
mena of nature. Such of his remarks as 
are publillied in the Philofophical Tra?jfac^ 
tionsy are full of curious and new informa- 
tion on thefe fubjefts. His knowledge of 
the plants of his own country, and parti- 
cularly thofe of Wales y juflly entitles him 
to remembrance in thefe pages, although he 
was not profelTedly an author on the fubjed: 
of them. 
Llhwyd firft brought to light feveral 
of the rare plants of Wales ^ many of which, 
till of late years, were confidered as natives 
of no other part of Britain. He difcovered 
feveral 
