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Show oeoe NTS C3..N To the Honourable ) OF THE Robert Boyle E{q; Firft Part. ROR FTE R I had finifhed the foregoing 2 CHAP. IL Ofthe Protections and Folds of Leaves. CHAP. IL part, to Uufold the Reafon and Scope of Nature there. Of thofe Things which appear upon the Surface of the Leaf. GHAP. IIL : ; ; Of the Figures of oa si the Apparent Pofition of He ey ae fome Examples of the Mechanife of Nature in ve ment hath over me, Ceite Of the Duration of Leaves, and : the Time oftheir Generation. ; This I have faid, that, if whatis herei n done, Shall prove acceptable unto Learned Men 3 they may know, To whom they are oncem ore to give their Thanks: After they have fo often 7 2 doneit,upon(a better {core ) the Publifhing of Your own Ex. cellent Works. In which, there feems to be a Queftion, Whether Your Continual Endeavours, to enlar ge the Bounds of VIL Of the Manner of the Generation of the Leaf. I al{o, that of The Performance whereof therefore, next to the Obedience I owe to the Royal Society , is to be looked upon, as a Due tothe Authority which Tour Judg- Of the Parts and Texture of the Leaf. , in: I was willing to fit down, and leave what remained: to the Improvements of the Prefent and Succeeding Ages. But in Difcourfe upon this Subje, You have been pleafe d requently to infift, That I fhould by no means omit, to give all the other Parts. CHAP. IV. CH AP. Books, In which, I conceive, as far as Glafles will yet lead us; I have clearly De= 2 fcrib’d and Delineated the Structure of a aN Plant; and have endeavourd, in fome : Where the Two General Parts of a Plant, fc. the Lignous and Parenchymous, is further explaind. yo a > nC . es 3}o Fi Natural Knowledg e, or Your Succelfes “1:therein, _ have been z the Great er. So that, whereas Nobility in fome, doth only ii nif iH isANE ine 4i | |
