Harrifon — Cole. 591 
with fpeclmens for his hiftory. In his 
younger years he had coUedied a large Her- 
barium. I have been informed by one who 
infpedted it in the year 1762, that it con- 
tained, at that time, near 4000 fpecimens, 
including both exotic and indigenous plants. 
Amon^ the latter, the Filices were the 
moll complete. part ; the other Cryptogairaa 
being but few, and the colledion in general 
not rich in Britifh fpecies. In order to 
accommodate the fpecimens to the largeft 
fized paper, luxuriant plants of the fmaller 
kinds had been chofcn ; a circumftance 
difadvantageous to the diftindtions of fuch 
plants. 
Mr. Harrison's Herbarium hath, I be- 
lieve, fmce been purchafed, at a confider- 
able price, and is depofited in the Maiicbef^ 
ter library. 
cole. 
Mr. Thomas Cole, another of the corre- 
fpondents of Dillenius, was a diffenting 
minifter at Gloucejier, of whom I have heard 
the following anecdote : That he had col- 
ledled an Herbarium, which, in a flight of 
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