The natural history of beetles / Illustrated by thirty-two plates, numerous wood-cuts, with memoir and portrait of Ray.

  • James Duncan
Date:
1835
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Credit: The natural history of beetles / Illustrated by thirty-two plates, numerous wood-cuts, with memoir and portrait of Ray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a letter to his valued friend Mr Willughby: ‘“ You remember that we lately, out of Gerard, Parkinson, and Phytologia Britannica, made a collection of rare plants, whose places are therein mentioned, and ranked them under the several counties. My intention now is to carry on and perfect that design ; to which purpose I am now writing to all my friends* and acquaintance who are skilful in herbary, to re- quest them this next summer, each to search dili- gently his countrey for plants, and to send me a ca- talogue of such as they find, together with the places where they grow. In divers counties I have such as are skilful and industrious. For Warwickshire and Nottinghamshire I must beg your assistance, which I hope and am confident you will be willing to contribute. After that, partly by my own search, partly by the mentioned assistance, I shall have got as much information and knowledge of the plants of each countrey as I can (which will require some years), I do design to put forth a compleat P. B. First I shall give the names of all plants which are or shall then be found growing in England, in an alpha- betical order ; together with their synonyma. I shall also put a full Index Anglicolatinus, after the man- ner of that in the Cat. Cant. Then I shal] put in the counties, with the several rare plants in them marshalled alphabetically,” &c.* For the accom- plishment of this object, but little aid could be de- * Philosophical Letters, p: 356.