A» ABSTR ACT of fome Colledtions 
received , net mentione d in my former Cen¬ 
turies. 
I .-J Nher Grace the DUCHESS of B K A U F O R T’s moft Noble 
1 Garden and Matchlefs Stoves at Eadmingten in Gloucejlerjhire, I the 
JsL kft Summer met with many New. Rare and very curious Planis, 
moft of them raifed to that PerfcCtion I ne ver faw before 
2. From Mr.jACOB BOBART, bcranick Profejfcr of the Phyfick^ 
Garden at Oxford, I have at times received feveral curious PUnts raifed in 
that Garden under his Care. 
3. Dr. JOANNES PHILIPPUS BREYNIUS f So» of 
JACOBUS BREYNIUS that late Cekbrated BounJl ) hath 
been pleafed to give me feveral uneommon Planrs, which he had cciledfced 
the laft Summer out of the moft Curious Gardens in Holland, and hath 
proraifed me greater Favours at his return to Dani^ick^ 
4. Mr. EDMUND BOHUN hath again been pleas’d generoufly 
to prelcnt mc with great variety of InfeRs and feveral Books of PUnts, 
which he colle&ed in Car olbia. 
j. I am njuch obliged toMr.EDWARD BULKLE Y at Fort 
«St. George for feveral Curious Piant s, Shells, Infeffs, &c. which, iince Mr. 
SAMUEL B R O W N E’s Peath, he hath been pleafed Vrequenrly 
to procure me, which I intend to eive fome Account of, with what elle 
he fhall particularly faYour me with. 
6. The Reverend Father GEORGE JOSEPH GAMEL hath 
again been pleafed to Favour Mr. R A Y and me with the accurate De- 
fcriptions and '^cfigns of feveral new Piants he hath obferved to grow in 
the Philip pine IJles. I have alio Iately received divers infecfs from him, 
and other Curhjities which fhall fuddenly be Figured and Defcribed. 
7. Mr. M A T T H E W C O L V l L L, Surgeon, gave me a Colle- 
&ion of fuch Shells hc fbund on Pnlo Vtrara , an Ifland near Ma- 
lacca. 
8. Mr. JAMES CUNINGHAME. To this Curious Perfon 
I am beyond expreflion obliged, not only for what he has fbrmerlydone, 
but alio Iately performed, vjz>. in his laft Voyagc to China he ient me 
Colledlions from the Cape of Good Hope t as alio from Combuys nea r Java, 
and the Crocodile IJles, and twice from the Iflands of Clntfan, from wnence 
I have received near two hundred feveral Planis, moft of them altogether 
New, to thefe he has added fuch Infdls , Shells , &c. as he met with s 
fome of which are already Figured in the Firjl and Sccond Decade of my 
Gaz.ophylactum Natura & <Artit, and others you may expeft in my Third, 
&c. 
9. To Mr. FI FI E L D, Surgeon , I am obliged for fome Shells and 
Tlants he gathered in the I 3 ay of Campeachy , and particularly for fome 
Sprigs of the Logwood , which I ne ver faw in England before. 
10. Madam EUZABETH G L A N V I L E. To this Curious 
Gentlewoman I am obliged for an hundred Inftfts Iately fent me (bdides 
others fhe gave me before) which fne had obferved in the Wtf of England, 
feveral of t nem being altogether new to me. 
ji. Dr. 
