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him in Wales y Shropfloire^ and Ilerefordfiire 
and thus, by the conamunications of thefe^ 
and many other friends, whofe aid he has 
gratefully acknowledged he was enabled 
to bring his work to that degree of perfec- 
tion, which w^oiild have b^en impracticable 
in many other fituations. In 1741 it was 
pubhfhed from the Sheldon prefs, under the 
following title i 
*^ HisTORiA MuscoRUM, in qua circi" 
ter fexcenta Species veteres et hovce^ ad fua 
Genera relatce^ defcribuntur ^ et Iconibus ge-^ 
niiinis illujlrantur ; cum Appendices et Indice 
S}ynonymoriim, Opeim Jo, Jac. Dillenii, 
M. D. in Uni'verjitate Oxonienji Botanices Pro-^ 
Sherardini," 4". 1741. pp.552. 
V^^. 85. 
All the fubjeds of this volume were 
draw^n> and engraved with his own hand. 
It comprehends all thofe plants which 
* The names of feveral foreigners appear in this lift ; 
Dr. Amman, of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at 
Peterjhurgh\ Olaus Celsius, Profeflbr of Divinity at 
Upfal Dr. y. Frederick Gronovius, of Leyden-, Dr. 
Haller, Profeffor at Gotiingm ; ^ind Linn^us hira* 
feif , ' 
come 
