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CHAP. 43, 
Martyn — Memoirs of — JVith DiUenius efiahltjhes 
a botanical fociety in London — Chojen Fellow of 
the Royal Society y and Profejfor of Botany Cam- 
bridge — Reads le5lures on the Materia Medica 
— Prefents his botanical library and Herbarium 
to the Univerfity- — JVritings — Tabula Synopti- 
cal — Methodus Plantarum— Decades quinque 
—Tranflation from Tournefort — His Virgil, 
MARTYN. 
AT the dawn of learning, the feeds of 
botany had been iirft fov/n in Eng-^ 
land, by Dr. Tukner, at Cambridge. They 
can fcarcely, however, be faid to have ger- 
minated, until a century afterwards, under 
the foftering care of Mr, Ray. By his 
cultivation, they took root, although not 
invigorated by public fupport. In the mean 
time, throuf>h the munificence of the Earl 
of Danby, Oxford experienced the benefit 
of a public inftitution in aid of this fcience, 
and botany flourifhed under the care of Mo- 
RISOK, 
