Dtllenius, i8i 
There is Kttle doubt that Dillenius 
intended to have profecuted the FungiiJfeSy as 
he had done the Mojfes ; and he appears to 
have had this defign in contemplation early 
after he came to England. In a letter, 
written in Dec. 1726, he informs his cor- 
refpondent, that " He wd.s bufy in painting 
" Fungi;'' and makes this employment an 
apology for not anfv^ering his letters in due 
time. We know that he correfponded with 
Dr. Dee RING on this fubjed: j who was 
himfelf well fkilled in the knowledge of 
thefe produftions, and had painted a great 
number, fome of which he communicated 
to the ProfefTor, 
I have been informed, that Dr. Dille- 
nius was of a corpulent habit of body : 
this circumftance, united to his clofe appli- 
cation to ftudy, probably tended to fliorten 
his days. He was feized with an apoplexy 
in the laft week of March, 1747 ; and died 
on the 2d of April, in the 6oth year of his 
age. 
There is a portrait of him in the pic- 
ture gallery, or fchool, at Oxford, in which 
he is reprefented in the academical habit ; 
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