The Language of Botany: Being a Dictionary of the Terms Made Use of in That Science, Principally by Linneus; With Familiar Explanations, and an ... With Critical Remarks (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

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Excerpt from The Language of Botany: Being a Dictionary of the Terms Made Use of in That Science, Principally by Linneus; With Familiar Explanations, and an Attempt to Establish Significant English Terms; The Whole Interspersed With Critical Remarks

Having been appointed by the unanimous voice of the Univerfity of Cambridge to the Profeflbr {hip of Botany; and being foon after nominated by Dr. Walker, the founder of the new garden, his firfi Leé'mrer;. I had the felicity of taking the lead in intréduci'ng the Linnean fyfiem and lan guage to fmy countrymen, by a courfe of public They were at that time both ew tirely new to the Univerfity, and very little known or attended to in other parts of 'the king dom, except at Edinburgh, by the laudable efforts of the late Dr. Hope.

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