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PAGE 63. 
Belon, Rauwolf and others, had already travelled through the 
other parts of the world, and Clusius also obtained from North 
America many of the natural curiosities colle&ed by Sir Francis 
Drake in his voyage round the world. The garden at Kew was first 
arranged by order of the Princess Dowager of Wales, the aunt, 
mother of his Majesty, now reigning, 
page 65. 
Linn/EUS, as he frequently to'd his pupils, never ceased to esteem 
Ray, as one of the most penetrating observers of the natural affinity of 
plants. 
page 69. 
Tournefort found an opponent long before Vail l ant his pupil, 
in Peter Magnol, of Montpellier , formerly his professor, whose 
CharaBer Plant arum was not printed till 1720. 
page 86. 
Einnaus was the four hundredth and sixty-fourth member of the 
Imperial Academy of Naturalists. Pie was received on the ; ' ird of C )6to- 
ber, 1736, by the name of Dioscorides II. Dr. Andrew Cleyer 
born at Cassel, afterwards first physician at Batavia , and a member of the 
great council there, received the honourable title of Dioscorides I. 
of that learned body, and professor John Burrmann at Amster- 
dam, was chosen in 1740, by the appellation of Dioscorides III. 
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