196 CHAPTER 42. 
papers are numerous, and are extant in the 
Philofophicd Tranfadiions. 
Dr. Thomas Molyneux Was profeflbr of 
phyfic in the univeriity of Dublin^ and phy- 
fician to the ftate, and to the army. About 
the beginning of this century, he drew up 
fome account of the fpontaneous vegetables 
of Ireland ; which evidence, that he had 
appHed to the ftudy in a fcientific manner. 
He communicated his papers to Dr» 
Threlkeld, who incorporated fome of 
them into the body of his Synopjisy and- 
placed the remainder at the end. Of Dr. 
Threlkeld I now proceed to give fome 
account. 
T H R E L K E L D. 
Caleb Threlkeld, the author of the 
firft treatife on the plants of Ireland, was 
born the 3ifl of May, 1676, at Keiberg^ 
in the parifh of Kirkofwaldy in Cumberland. 
In the year 1698^ he commenced mafter of 
arts in the univerfity of Glafgow, and foon 
after fettled at Low Huddlefceugh , near the 
place of his birth, in the charadler of a 
dilTenting minifter. He had acquired a 
tafte 
