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III An Account of part of a ColkHion of Curi^ 
$us Plants and Drugs^ lately given to the 
Royal Society by the Eaft India Company. 
A Preface to the foil owing Account by the PubliJIoer 
ofthefe Tranfa&ions, 
AT the beginning of the 20th Volume of thefe Pa- 
pers^an Account was promifed of a Curious CoUeUi- 
on of Plants and other Simfles^ gathered by Mr Samuel 
Brown^ a Phyfician at Fort St George in the Eaft Indiet. 
The performance of which promife has been hitherto 
delayed.becaufe fome of the Seeds were diftributed and 
raifed in themoft Curious Gardens in England^ as at her 
Grace the Dutchefs of Beaufort's 2it Badminton^ the Right 
Reverend the Biftiop of London s at Fulham^ at Dr Ro* 
bert Fuedale's at Enfield^ Mr Jacob Bobarfs in Oxford^ 
Mt Du'Bok's Bl Mitcham^ and Mr Sam. Dood/s at the 
■ Apothecaries Garden in C^e/y^^. Some additional in- 
formations have been by this means received,and 'twas 
hoped more might have been had 5 and this has been 
the occafion of the delay of this account. 
It (hall contain the whole and entire Ohfervations of 
Mr Brown J v/ithout any abridgment. His Obfervations 
fhall have his name fubfcribed to them, to diftinguifh 
them from the Remarks, defigned to be added by Mr 
Petiver, which will give his Thoughts aad Difcoveries 
concerning thefe Plants, he having obferved em in other 
ColleftionSjraifed in Englajid from Seeds^ or defcribed in 
Books already printed^ He was thought the fitted perfon, 
as well for his great abilities in this kind, as that they 
were gathered at his defire^m^ that Mr Brown^Yfho pre- 
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