This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...Shaw, the oriental traveller, Professor Martyn the elder, of Cambridge, the celebrated Peter Collinson, and the well-known Philip Miller, the keeper of the botanic garden at Chelsea. It was not, however, till after some unpromising attempts, that he succeeded in inspiring the last-mentioned botanist with a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...Shaw, the oriental traveller, Professor Martyn the elder, of Cambridge, the celebrated Peter Collinson, and the well-known Philip Miller, the keeper of the botanic garden at Chelsea. It was not, however, till after some unpromising attempts, that he succeeded in inspiring the last-mentioned botanist with a favourable opinion of him. All the English professors, in fact, were warmly attached to the system of Ray. Dillenius, the Botanical Professor at Oxford, a man of superior knowledge, received him also at first with jealousy and dislike; but was at length so impressed with his talents, that he urged him to take up his residence there, offering to share the profits of his professorship with him. These men of true science admired his genius and valued his friendship: they promoted his wishes by every means in their power, enriching him with books, and supplying him plentifully with plants, both for his own herbarium, and the garden of his patron at Hartecamp. Of his observations on the natural history of this country, nothing is preserved but a tradition, that the golden bloom of the furze on the commons near London, especially on Putney heath, delighted him so much, that he fell on his knees in a rapture at the sight. He was always an admirer of this plant, and laboured in vain to preserve it through a Swedish winter in his greenhouse; as we in England are obliged to shelter the Cape shrub in a stove, though it covers walls in the open air at Paris. On his return to Holland, he proceeded with renewed spirit and confidence in his great plan of botanical reform, and he gave to the world his first edition of the Genera Plantarum in the beginning of 1737. His fame had already begun to be noised abroad; for, in October, L736, the Imperial Academy of...
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