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with this infcription — "Jacobus Dilienius,, 
M.D. Botanices Frofejjor primus y in Acade- 
mia Oxonienfi y but I have never heard that 
any engraving v^as made from it 
I have never been able to acquire that 
information my curiofity hath prompted 
me to wifii for, relating to the domeftic 
charader, habits, temper, and difpofitions 
of Dr. DiLLENius. Of thofe v/hom I 
have converfed with, who were his con- 
temporaries, I have learned, that he was 
modeft, temperate^ and gentle in all his 
condudl : that he was known to few who 
did not feek him 5 and, as might be ex- 
peded, from the bent of his ftudies, and 
* The drawings, dried plants, printed boo\cs and ma- 
nufcripts, &c. of Dillenius, came into the hands of Dr. 
Seidel, as his executor, of whom Dr. Sibthorp pur- 
chafed them. Among thefe are all the Britijlj Funguffesy 
drawn and painted by Dillenius himfelf j befides a 
large co]le<51ion of fuch non-defcript Fungi^ as were dif- 
covered fubfequent to the publication of the Synopjis^ 
Some drawings alfo of the more perfect plants, done by 
DiLLENi-js, but many of them unfinifl^ed. Dillenius 
coloured fome copies of the Hortus Elthamcnfts himfelf ; 
one of which he prefented to the Bodleian library. { From 
piforination ohligingly cojmnun'icated hy Dr^'John SlBTHORP, 
the ^refint learned ProfeJJor at Oxford) ^ 
