HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE: 433 
Robert Morison, a Scotchman, was born at Aber- 
deen, 1620, and died 1683, as Professor of Botany 
at Oxford, in consequence of a violent contusion of 
his breast by a waggon. As he had the superin- 
tendance of the botanical garden at Oxford, he had 
ample opportunity to examine the fruits of plants 
more carefully than any preceding botanists. He 
has been most esteemed for the accurate division of 
the umbelliferous flowers, which is printed along 
with his larger work*. 
Jacob Barrelier was born at Paris, 1634, studied 
medicine, and just as he intended to graduate be- 
came a Dominican friar. He travelled several times 
through Spain, France, Switzerland, and Italy. Dur- 
ing his travels he paid chiefly attention to natural 
history. He made drawings of plants, insects, and 
shells, and intended to publish, like Columna, a bo- 
tanical work, entitled, Hortus mundi, sive Orbis bo- 
Siciliae, Melitae, Galliae; et Italiae. Edidit Morison: Oxoniae: 
1674. 4to. With 52 plates, which répresent 112 plants. 
Ejusd. Museo di Fisica et d’Esperienze. Tom, I. Venet. 
1607. 4to. 
Ejusd. Museo di plante rare della Sicilia, Maltha, &c. Tom: 
08 1647. 4to. These two constitute a work which is ex- 
tremely rare, but at the same time is inferior in its plates to 
the first. 
* Roberti Morisoni historia plantarum. Tom. 1s 8 & 
Oxon. 1715. fol. with 292 plates, which represent 3600 
plants. The first volume of Morison’s work was never pub- 
lished. His small treatise on the Umbellatae has therefore 
been afterwards printed as the first volume, and passes under 
that title. 
Ee tanicus, 
