Miscellaneous tracts relating to natural history, husbandry, and physickTo which is added The calendar of flora . l. Bagon. Primus gradus fapientiae eft res ipfas noffe ; quae notitia confiftitin vera idea objedlorum ; obje^la diftinguuntur et nofcunturex methodica iilorum diviJio?ie et conveniente dencminatione ;adeoque divifio et denominatio fvuidamentun) noftrae fcienti^erit. Lin IV. T O t H ERIGHT HONORABLE George, Lord Lyttelton, Baron of Frankley, My Lord, ^^ftoBN, BESIDES private motives ofrelpeft and honor, there isanother of a public nature, whichmakes me defirous to infcribe thefollo
Miscellaneous tracts relating to natural history, husbandry, and physickTo which is added The calendar of flora . l. Bagon. Primus gradus fapientiae eft res ipfas noffe ; quae notitia confiftitin vera idea objedlorum ; obje^la diftinguuntur et nofcunturex methodica iilorum diviJio?ie et conveniente dencminatione ;adeoque divifio et denominatio fvuidamentun) noftrae fcienti^erit. Lin IV. T O t H ERIGHT HONORABLE George, Lord Lyttelton, Baron of Frankley, My Lord, ^^ftoBN, BESIDES private motives ofrelpeft and honor, there isanother of a public nature, whichmakes me defirous to infcribe thefollowing fheets to Your mean the zeal which You fhewedin Parliament for fecuring to thisCountry that noble colleftion of na-tural curiofities- now repofited in theritifti Muleum; which cannot fail 22 —> DEDICATION. in time to prodyce many good ef-fefts, and prove the truth of whatYour Lordlhip obferved, that thereputation and intereft of the nationwere highly concerned in that pur-chafe, I am, with the greateft re-gard, My Lord,Your Lordfhips moft Obligedand Humble Servant, Ben J. Stilling PREFACE O F T H E TRANSLATOR. TH E following pieces were feleftedfrom many others publiflicd by fe-veral ingenious members of that great, andhitherto unrivalled fchool of natural hif-tory, the univerfity of Upfal in Sweden,under the prefidence of Linnaeus \ TheyA 3 were ^Linnaeus Phil. Bot. p. 9. has thefe words, noftra dc ficu. Now there is a piece in vol. I. on this fubjev^, in which the matterreferred to is contained. This piece goes under thename of Cornelius Hegardt, tho* Linnasus plainly quotes ic vi PREFACE. were felecfled not as the only, or even themoft valuable, but as anfwering beft theintention of the tranflator; which wasto make known more generally how farall mankind is concerned in the ftudy ofnatural hiflory, and thereby to incite fuchas are properly qualified to profecute, andencourage that branch of knowledge, andfpread, as far as
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