

TAOV Er tia 
R ight Honourable 
WILLIAM 
Lord Vi-Count B ROUNCKER 
‘THE 
PRESIDENT 
AND TO THE 
Council and Fellows. 
ROYAL SOCIETY-. 
MY LORD, 
SF the Dedication of Books were not in ule ; 
yet here, I think, I might have been a Pre- 
cedent. The promotion of Phytological 
gg Science is one Part of Your Work; and’tis 
Ya, Tou have called meto the management of 
~~ this Part; for fome time, have intrufted me 
herein; and by Your moft favourable and candid accep- 
tance of what I have performed thus far, have encou- 
raged me hereunto: I therefore prefent but Zour Own; 
into Your Hands. 
The great Honour and Advantage of Your Fellowhhip, 
I firft obtained, by Mediation of Dr. Wilkins, the late moft 
Reverend Bihop of Chefier. Whom I cannot name, 
without faying thus much of him, That He was a Per- 
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