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275'to fome part of March 276, Mr. de Boze places 
the death of Fetricus, and his confecration confequent 
upon it, within that time, as what appears to him 
the moft probable* And with that event he con- 
cludes his elaborate and curious difcourfe. 
G. C. March a 1, J. W ard. 
XXI. An Account of a 1*7' eat if e , prefented to 
the Royal Society, intit led. Flora Sibirica, 
live hiftoria plantarum Sibiriae tomus fe- 
cundus, extracted and tranjlated from the 
Latin of Profejfor Gmelin, by W. Watfon, 
F. R. S. 
Read April 1 2, f ' g A HIS volume of the Flora Sibirica, 
‘ 753 - now under confideration, contains 
two hundred and forty pages in quarto, exclufive of 
the preface, and ninety- eight copper plates very cu- 
rioufly engraved. It was printed at Peterfburg in the 
year 174.5?. 
An account of the hrft volume of this valuable 
work was communicated to the Society by my learned 
and ingenious friend Dr. John Fothergill *, and has 
been published in the Philofophical Tranfaftions : from 
its title, we are only promiled an account of the plants 
of Sibiria; but Dr. John George Gmelin, its author 
at 
* See Phil . Tranf Vol. XLV, pag. 24S. 
