Miller. 
He maintained a correfpondence with 
many of the moft eminent botanifts on the 
continent; among others, with Linn^us, 
who faid of his Diftionary, Non erit Lexi^* 
con Horfulanorumy fed Botanicorum. By 
foreigners h-e was emphatically ftiled Hor^ 
iulanorum Princeps. He was admitted a 
member of the Botanical Academy of Flo-* 
rencey and of the. Royal Society of LondoUy 
in which he was occafionally honoured by 
being chofen of the council. Mr. Mil- 
ler was the only perfon I ever knew, 
who remembered to have feen Mr* Ray* 
I lhall not eafily forget the pleafure that 
enlightened his countenance, it fo ftrongiy 
expreffed the Virgilium tantum vidi^ when^ 
in fpeaking of that fevered man, he related 
to me that incident of his youth. 
Mr. Miller's infirmities induced hint 
to refign his office in the Garden, a little 
time before his deceafe, which took place 
December 18, 1771, in the 80th year of 
his age. He left a very large Herbarium of 
Exotics, principally the produce of the Chel'^ 
fea Garden, 
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