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This dependence on the authority of others, to 
overturn what I think we have eftablifhed with 
very rtrong evidence, will, I am in hopes, convince 
him of the propriety of that welhchofen motto of the 
Royal Society. “ Nullius in verba ; which I find 
he has adopted as the common feal of his epifties to 
his literary correfpondents : and he will now have a 
further opportunity of * complimenting Do&or 
Barter on making a fecond apology for what he has 
advanced againft me in the fhil. Tianf Vo). LII. 
p. in. by (hewing him, that they have both been 
miftaken in blending two very different geneia of 
the animal and vegetable kingdoms of nature to- 
gether. 
To make this difference appear ftill more evident, 
I come now to lay before you a new fcene ot n.ttuiej 
which an accurate examination into the gratifica- 
tion, as well as the articulations, of fome 01 the Con- 
fervas, afforded me. Indeed the minutenefs of thefe 
objects would fcarce feem worth while to examine 
into fo critically, if my reputation had not engaged 
me to fliew the wide difference between them and 
Corallines. This, joined to fome remarkable difco- 
veries, which I made in the year ^754 on coa ^ L 
of Suffex (in company with Mr. G. D. Ehret, F.R. S.) 
in the fructification ot this clafs of plants, which 
* Pallas Zooph. p. 20. “ Candidifllmus Bafterus, qui hue- 
“ ufque Contra Ellifium reliquofque prioris fententise patronos 
*t fteterat, alterius evidential vi£tas dedit manus, et gloriofnLmo 
exemplo, repudiata priori fua opin’tone, veram theoriam acri- 
“ ter def'endere ccepit,” 
, * before.. 
