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 x of Beaufort, has been obtained. R. S. means the specimens of Plants annually, in obedience to Sir Hans Sloane's will, presented by the Company of Apothecaries to the Royal Society, part of which are deposited in the library belonging to that body, in Somerset Place, and the remainder in the British Museum.

On the authority of various letters and other papers communicated by Michael Collinson, Esq; many Plants are said to have been introduced by his father, Mr. Peter Collinson, of Mill Hill.

Mr. Knowlton, formerly Gardener to James Sherard, M. D. at Eltham, gave a variety of useful information, to which his name is always annexed. He died in 1782, at the age of 90.

Mr. James Lee, nurseryman at the vineyard, Hammersmith, who remembers the gardens of Archibald duke of Argyle, at Whitton, near Hounflow, cultivated with much care and liberal expence, has furnished the Author with a list of the Trees that were introduced by his Grace.

From his own memory the Author states several Plants to have been cultivated by Mr. Ph. Miller, in the Physick Garden at Chelsea, though no reference is made to them in his Gardener's Dictionary.

Some Plants are by tradition known to have been