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VI. A Botanical Invitation to forward an Hi « 
flory of the Plants o/Swiflerland 5 hy Dr. John 
Jacob Scheuchzer, M. D. F. <!{. S. fent to 
Sir Hans Sloane, Bar 1 ' Pr. p. S. to be com- 
municated to the Royal Society. Tranflated 
by Mr. Zollman, F. S. 
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I T is not my Intention to enter into a long Detail 
of what I have hitherto performed in Natural 
Hiftory, both in general, and that of Swijferland in 
particular, left I might feem guilty of Vanity even 
in merely relating it. Any body, that is acquainted 
with my Writings concerning the Natural Hiftory of 
S'wiJJ'erland, will be fen Able that we ftill want a 
Botanograpby, or Defcription of the Plants, which 
is one of its principal Parts j nay, that to which 1 
chiefly have applied myfelf, and I dare add, without 
Offence to the cenforious, which the World has long 
been in Expectation of : Some Obfervations difperfed 
in my Itinera Alpha , publilhed at London and Lei- 
den y have raifed a Defire for it among Botanifts. It 
will thence appear to every one who applies him- 
felf to a Study as difficult as it is delightful, that I 
fpared neither Labour nor Expences in fearching af- 
ter Plants of all Kinds that grow fpontaneou fly in 
S'wijferlandy and defcribing them in the Places where 
they grow, in gathering them into Herbals, in com- 
paring them with the Defcriptions and Characters given 
of them by Gefnerus, the Baulin's, Ray, ‘Bourne- 
fort , Boocone, and others, in feparating what ought to 
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