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Show TOP Foe Right Honourable WILLIAM Lord Vi-Count B ROW NCKER ie tials PRESIDENT AND TO THE ” MBE 4 ih DTDemerara (i) } Hh Council and Fellows hal Or THE ROYAL SOCIETY: MY LORD, atege F the Dedication of Books were not inufe; g yethere, I chink, I might have beena Pre- The promotion of Phytological Science isone Part of Your Work; and ’tis i, You have called me to the management of this Part; for fome time, have intrufted me herein; and by Your moft favourable and candid acceptance of what I have performedthus far, have encouraged me hereunto: I therefore prefent but Your Own, into Your Hands. The great Honour and Advantage of Your Fellowship, I firft obtained, by Mediation of Dr. Wilkins, the late moft Reverend Bifhop of Chefier. Whom I cannot name, without faying thus much of him, That He was a Perfon |