HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE. 4.65 
William Aiton, inspeector of the royal botanic 
garden at Kew near London; died 1794. An ex- 
cellent observer, who has presented us with an ele- 
gant description of the plants in the garden at 
Kew*. : 
Johann. de Loureiro, a Portuguese, went as 
missionary to Cochinchina, but as he could 
not, without medicine, succeed in his plans, he 
studied the productions of the vegetable kingdom. 
After a residence there of about 30 years, he went 
with a Portuguese ship to Mozambique, and finally — 
returned to Portugal. We have from him a valu- 
able work on the plants which he met with during 
his journey t. | 
Jacob Julian la Billardiere, physician at Paris, in- 
tended, after he had travelled through the moun- 
tains of Dauphiny and Savoy, to undertake a bo- 
tanical journey, under the patronage of the minister 
editae. Londin. Fasc. I. II. III. 1789---1791. fol. with 75 
good plates. 
Ejusd. Icones pictae plantarum rariorum. Fasc. I---III. 
Lond.“ 1790---91---93. An expensive work. Each fascicle 
has 6 well coloured plates. 
Ejusd. Specimen of the Botany of New Holland, vol. I. 
Fasc. I. TV. Lond. 1793. gto. 1794. Each fascicle contains 
four neatly coloured plates. 
* Hortus Kewensis, or a catalogue tof the plants cultivated 
in the royal botanic garden at Kew, by William Aiton. . Vol. 
J. 11. IIT. London. 1789. 8vo. with a few very good plates. 
A. new edition of this useful work is expected. 
_ F Joannis de Loureiro Flora Cochinchinensis. Tom. I. & 
If. Ullissipone. 1790. I have myself published an edition 
of it in 8yo. in 1798, by Spener, with notes. 
Gg Pitty 
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