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Elements of botany / By R.J. Thornton.

  • Robert John Thornton
Date:
1812
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Elements of botany / By R.J. Thornton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE REV. THOMAS MARTYN, M. A. F.R.S. * _t REGIUS PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE LINNAIAN SOCIETY, &C. &C. MOST WORTHY PROFESSOR! It gives me the highest satisfaction to have lived at a period when Botany has made such great progress under your auspices; when the world has been favoured with the best elementary works from your pen. I need not mention here, “ Letters on Botany, addressed to Ladiesf and your <c Language of Botanyimmortal works! which have created such an universal taste for the science, with the correctest notions;—but to crown you “ Prince of Botanists f a gigantic labour presented itself to your enlarged understanding, the revision of the “ Gardener s Dictionary, by Millerwhich immense undertaking would have appalled any other heart but your’s, which, indeed, is never wearied in useful or benevolent exertions, and fortunately for the world, by Providence granting VOL. r. B
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