CHAPTER 37. 
miift at leaft be granted, that they are as 
rational in the principle of thmi, as thofe 
of his predeceflbrs. 
PharmacO'-botanokgia: oi\ An Alphabe- 
tical and Claffical DiiTertation on all the 
*^ Brilip Indigenous and Garden Plants of 
*^ the New Difpeiifatory/* Loiido 1723 — 
1728, 4^ The genera and fpecies arb de- 
fcribedj the feniible qualities and medicinal 
powers are fubjoined^ and the pharmaceu- 
tical ufes. 
In this work the author notices feveral of 
the more rare Englifi plants, difcovered by 
himfeh^ in the environs of BoJIon. The 
work was iinperfedtj being carried no far- 
ther than the letter II, 
Dr. Blair the author of the fol^ 
lowing papers in th^e Pbilofopbical Tranjac^ 
Tlie Anatomy and Ofteology of an Ele- 
phant^ with ail hillorical Account of that 
AnimaL N'' 326, 327. 358. Vol. xxvii, 
p. 53, and I ij, and VoL xxx. p. 385. This 
'Accpunt was aL(b feparately pubiiflied in 
4^ 17115. illuilrated with figures. 
The heat of the weather when the ani- 
mai died^ occaiioned a precipitate diffection 5 
bat 
