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various uses of each vegetable. They exhibit a 
proof of the author’s veracity, which I conceive it 
is difficult to parallel in any other work.” « The 
voyage of Dr Sloane was productive of much sub- 
sequent benefit to science, by exciting an emula- 
tion both in Britain and on the Continent. Sir 
Arthur Rawdon, upon viewing his splendid col- 
lection, sent James Herbert, a skilful gardener, 
to Jamaica, who returned with a ship almost laden 
with plants, in a vegetating state, and with a great 
number of dried specimens. Of the latter, Sloane 
had all such as were new, before he published his 
first volume. Many of the living plants succeeded 
in the garden of Sir Arthur, at Moyra, in Ireland ; 
and many were distributed into the garden of the 
Bishop of London, at Fulham, Dr Uvedales at 
Enfield, the Chelsea garden, and especially that 
of her Grace the Duchess of Beaufort, at Bad- 
minton, in Gloucestershire ; the botanic gardens 
of Amsterdam, Leyden, Leipsic, and Upsal, 
shared these varieties. Tournefort sent Dr 
Gundelscheimer, his associate in his oriental 
journey, into England, to view Sloane’s plants, 
and this gave occasion to Plumier’s expedition 
into the Caribbee Islands.”* 
Sir Hans Sloane was ever ready to promote 
the interests of science, by his purse and his 
* Pultcney’s Origin and Progress of Botany, vol. ii. pp. 
79 - 81 . 
