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ciety of botanlfls, which confilled of feven- 
teen members. This fociety kept together 
till the year 1726. He continued, during the 
years 1723 and 1724, to make his excur- 
lions in fearch of plants more frequent^ and 
extended them farther, into Middlefex, Sur- 
rey, Efjex^ and Kent, At the fame time he 
ftudied Infects, continued his obfervations 
on the Seed-leaves, and made many others 
on the Sexes of Plants. , He had, feveral 
years before this time, tranflated from the 
Latifiy an ode on that fubjed, prefented to 
Camerarius, and printed in that Author's 
epiftle De Sexu Flantarum, The tranllation 
may be feen in Blair's Botanic Elfays/* 
In the fummer of 1724, he travelled into 
Walesy by Bath and Brtftol, returning by 
Hereford^ Worcejler^ 2^x\&. Oxford-, by v^hich 
he extended the objeds of his ftudies, and 
augmented his colledion of Englijh plants ; 
infomuch, that at length it comprehended 
1400 fpecimens. 
In 1725 and 1726, he read ledures in 
botany in London, and was recommended 
by Dr. Sherard and Sir Hans Sloane 
to exercife the fame fundion at Cambridge ^ 
where. 
