us HA T ‘the Reader is to ae in this Efiay, 
sai will perhaps be learned; with moft Satis- 
faction, from the following Account, of the 
Author’ s Inducements to engage in fuch 
Difquifitions, the Difficulties that attended 
_ them, and the various Succefs. _ 
talst Hehe, Atirarin of the Year 1751, is neceived!: a curious — 
Colle&ion of Sea-plants and Corallines from the Ifland of 
Anglefey, in North Wales, and another from Dublin, In 
order to preferve fome Specimens of the moft rare Kinds, 
particularly thofe that were remarkable for their Colours, I 
expanded them on Paper in frefh Water, laying out their 
fine Ramifications with fome Exa@nefs ; for which Method, 
-with many ufeful Hints in Botany, | am indebted to that 
excellent Botanift Mr. Butiner, of Berlin. otek atti 
T hefe, when properly dried, J; difpofed on thin eee 
covered with clean white Paper, in fuch a manner # to 
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