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various difcoveries and communications, 
and, ever awake to its welfare, by the pa- 
tronage they extended towards it. I cannot 
omit to mention fome of thefe, though it 
be out of my power either to do fufficient 
juftice to their fervices myfelf, or to point 
out, in fome inftances, fuch memorials re- 
lating to their lives, as might properly gra- 
tify that curiofity, which efteem for their 
charad:ers naturally excites. 
COLLINSON. 
As prior in point of time, I mention Mr. 
Feter Collinson, to whofe name is at- 
tached all that refpeft which is due to bene- 
volence and virtue. I have the fatisfadion of 
referring the reader to fome account of Mr, 
Collinson, printed in 1770 : and to fur- 
ther anecdotes, by Dr.LETTSOM, at the end 
of his Memoirs of Dr. Fothergill 
to which is annexed, a lift of Mr. Colltn- 
son's papers, printed in the Philofophical 
TranfaSionSy and in the Gentleman s Maga^ 
zine^. In Mr. Collinson's tim^yEnglarid 
received large acceffions to exotic botany 
* See alfo a further account of Mr. Collinson in 
thQ Blographia Brhannkci* Vol, iv. 2d edit. p. 34.. 
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