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whom he had before correfponded, and 
whom he had encouraged to profecute his 
cnquh*ies into the Cryptogamia clafs, and ia 
publifhing his Plant ce Gijfenfes. S h e r a r d 
had himfelf been among the earheft in 
England, to promote attention to this hi- 
therto negledled part of nature ; and in this 
DiLLENius had already excelled all who 
had written before him. 
Although Dr. Sherard had acquired 
a confiderable fortune in AJia, yet he lived 
with the greateft privacy in London^ wholly 
immerfed in the ftudy of natural hiftory ; 
except when he went to his brother's feat 
and f^ne garden at Eltham, Dr. Dil- 
LENius affifted him in his chief employ- 
ment, the carrying on his Pinax, or Col- 
ledtion of all the names, which had been 
given by botanical writers to each plant ; 
being a continuation of Cafpar Bauhine's 
great plan. 
Dr. Sherard was, in a particular man- 
ner, the patron of Mr. Mark Catesby; 
and himfelf affixed the Latin names to the 
plants of " The Natural Hiftory of Caro^ 
\\ Una:' 
He 
