SIR HANS SLOANE. 
A\) 
TO HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, 
THE KING; 
THIS SECOND VOLUME OP THE 
NATURAL HISTORY OF JAMAICA, 
6ne op 
THE LARGEST AND MOST CONSIDERABLE 
OF 
HIS MAJESTY’S PLANTATIONS 
IN 
AMERICA, 
IS, WITH ALL HUMILITY DEDICATED, 
AS A TESTIMONY OF HIS DUTY AND GRATITUDE 
FOR THE MANY GREAT BLESSINGS 
WHICH HE WITH OTHERS ENJOY, 
UNDER HIS MAJESTY’S WISE GOVERNMENT 
AND POWERFUL PROTECTION ; 
AND FOR SEVERAL PARTICULAR INSTANCES 
OF HIS MAJESTY’S FAVOURS CONFERRED ON 
HIS MAJESTY’S MOST OBEDIENT, 
MOST DUTIFUL, 
AND MOST FAITHFUL 
SUBJECT AND SERVANT, 
HANS SLOANE. 
There is an introduction of eighteen pages in 
vindication of those parts of the catalogue which 
had been attacked by Plukenet* in his Mantissa. 
* Leonard Plukenet was a celebrated botanist, who, 
like his contemporaries Sloane and Petiver, practised 
medicine, but whether as a physician or apothecary is not 
known, but probably the latter ; at all events, he never 
attained to any eminence in his profession, which appears 
to have excited his jealousy against them, who were both 
in high estimation and flourishing circumstances, particu- 
larly as, according to Sir J. F,. Smith’s opinion, in 
botanical science he “ was apparently a man of more 
solid learning than either of those distinguished writers ; 
and, having been less prosperous than either, he was 
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