44D PRINCIPLES OF BOTANY, ETC. 
Paris, and that of Gundelsheimer in the’ library of 
the Academy of Sciences at Berlin*. 
Sir Hans Sloane, an Irishman, born 1660, studied 
medicine in France, went to Jamaica, became after- 
wards physician at London, and President of the 
Royal Society. Died January 11, 1753. His nu- 
merous collection of natural curiosities is deposited 
in the British Museum. He was a great patron of 
science in general{. 
William Sherard, a great amateur of natural his- 
tory, who spared no expence with regard to botany. 
He was a long time British consul at Smyrna, and 
founded, after his return, at his country seat at El- 
tham near Oxford, a very fine botanical garden. 
Except some treatises in the Philosophical Transac- 
tions he wrote nothing on botany. Sherard intended 
to continue the Pinax of C. Bauhin, but died when 
occupied with it in 1738. He has left a certain sum 
which is given as a salary to a Professor of Botany 
in Oxford! who is to publish his great collection of 
drawings. 
* J. Pitton Tournefort relation d’un voyage de Levant. 
Paris. 1717. 4to. Vol. I. Hl. We have a German transla- 
tion, published at Nuernkerg. 1776. in 3 vols. 8vo. This 
work contains many plates. 
| Ejusd. Institutiones rei herbariae. Tom. I. II. III. Paris. 
1719. 4to. with 489 plates. This is the third edition, by the 
care of Jussieu. I never saw the older ones. 
+ Hans Sloane, Esq.3 a voyage to Madeira, Barbadoes, 
Nevis, St Christophers, Jamaica, with the natural history. 
London. 1707. fol. A very scarce work, which is even in 
London sold for rol. | | 
Olaus 
