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THE ESSEX NATURALIST. 
seen more clearly than in the Appendix he added to his edition 
of Silas Taylor’s History and Antiquities of Harwich and Dover- 
court (1730: see post). Therein, he gives descriptive lists 
of all the natural productions of the district—the Crag Fossils 
in the Cliff (pp. 18-19 an d 273-326), the Marine Plants (pp. 
337-448), the Land Plants (pp. 349-377), the Mollusca, etc. 
(pp. 377-390), the Birds (pp. 396-409), the Cetacea (pp. 409- 
419) and the Fishes (pp. 420-438). Dale’s appendix and notes 
made this, for the period, a notable scientific Work. 
Of the nine articles contributed by Dale to the Philosophical 
Transactions between 1692 and 1732, most dealt with subjects 
other than botany. 
Dale’s studies in local archaeology and topography have 
passed hitherto practically unnoticed. Yet they were con¬ 
siderable. Thus, in The History of Harwich and Dover court, the 
original author’s manorial history, his account of the monu¬ 
ments in the church, and so forth, are all annotated by Dale with 
knowledge and skill. Further, between 1710 and 1730, Dale 
greatly helped his neighbour, the Rev. William Holman (1669- 
1730), the Congregational Minister, of Halstead, in collecting 
materials for the latter’s contemplated “ History of Essex.” The 
Rev. Philip Morant, the Essex historian, says 75 of Holman that 
“ His neighbour, Samuel Dale, assisted him very much and made 
great improvements [in his matter] .” 76 Holman’s History of Essex, 
the earliest ever seriously attempted, was never published as 
intended, though his matter Was used nearly fifty years later 
by Morant, as the basis of his well-known History of Essex (two 
vols., folio, 1768). 77 Had it ever been published, no doubt we 
should have known much more as to Dale’s labours in connec¬ 
tion with the matter. 
Dale’s literary labours, though small in quantity, Were 
of considerable value. His Pharmacologia (1693), dedicated 
to the (Royal) College of Physicians, and the earliest complete 
treatise on its subject, was in Latin. Later editions, also in 
Latin, were published in England in 1710 and 1737. 78 His 
75 Hist, of Essex, i., Preface, p. [i] (1768). See also Essex Review, iii. (1894), PP- 261-266. 
76 There are in the British Museum (Lansd., 814, ff. 68-69) copies of two letters from Dale 
to Holman dated 30th April and 18th November 1724, both somewhat curt and formal in tone 
and of no special interest. 
7 7 Holman’s original manuscript collections still exist, being preserved in part among the 
Hills Manuscripts in Colchester Castle and in part among the Rawlinson Manuscripts in the Bod¬ 
leian Library (see Essex Review, iii., p. 266 : 1895). 
78 Pharmacologia, seu Manuductio ad Materiam Medicam, &c., &c., third edition, much 
altered and added to. London : Printed by Wm. Innys and Richard Manby, Printers* to the 
Royal Society, 173 7, 4 6 ° PP-> P°st 40. Prof. Boulger informs me he has seen an edition, described 
as “Quinta Editio,ex scripsis Hermani Boerhave,” published at Amsterdam in 1751. 
