Extracts from the Literary and Scientific Correspondence of Richard Richardson, M.D., F.R.S., of Bierley, Yorkshire: Illustrative of the State and Progress of Botany, and Interspersed with Information Respecting the Study of Antiquities and General Literature, in Great Britain, During the First Half of the Eighteenth CenturyCharles Sloman, 1835 - 451 pagina's |
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Pagina vi
... hope , to the exclusion of any letter in itself otherwise interesting , but certainly to the admission of a few , whose only value is that of throwing light upon his pursuits , his character , or his associates . It was a consideration ...
... hope , to the exclusion of any letter in itself otherwise interesting , but certainly to the admission of a few , whose only value is that of throwing light upon his pursuits , his character , or his associates . It was a consideration ...
Pagina xii
... hope it may yet be one day consigned . The garden , indeed , at Botanicæ principiis minùs consentanea . Qui autem nomina Synonyma cupit , Caspari Bauhini Pinacem , Roberti Morrisonii et Johannis Raii Historiam Universalem , consulat ...
... hope it may yet be one day consigned . The garden , indeed , at Botanicæ principiis minùs consentanea . Qui autem nomina Synonyma cupit , Caspari Bauhini Pinacem , Roberti Morrisonii et Johannis Raii Historiam Universalem , consulat ...
Pagina xx
... hope , be regarded as interfering with the object more particularly before me . In them will be traced the commencement of the collection of pictures , now in the possession of the family . It only remains for me to say , that the sole ...
... hope , be regarded as interfering with the object more particularly before me . In them will be traced the commencement of the collection of pictures , now in the possession of the family . It only remains for me to say , that the sole ...
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... hope will by my return , that I may have his company to the county of Derry and the western shoar . I am glad you have received your seeds from Dr. Hermann : he sent me a parcel and book the same time , ( as he writes ) , which I have ...
... hope will by my return , that I may have his company to the county of Derry and the western shoar . I am glad you have received your seeds from Dr. Hermann : he sent me a parcel and book the same time , ( as he writes ) , which I have ...
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... hope you will take an opportunity of making an acquaintance with him . " To Lhwyd's botanical knowledge ample testimony is borne by Ray , who is indebted to him for many additions to his lists of British plants , particularly those of ...
... hope you will take an opportunity of making an acquaintance with him . " To Lhwyd's botanical knowledge ample testimony is borne by Ray , who is indebted to him for many additions to his lists of British plants , particularly those of ...
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Extracts from the Literary and Scientific Correspondence of Richard ... Richard Richardson Volledige weergave - 1835 |
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acquaintance Antiquities Bobart Bodleian Library Boerhaave Botanist Botany brother Buddle Catalogue collection copy curious DEAR SIR desire died Dillenius edition Eltham England English favour foliis folio fossils garden give glad to hear hath Hearne to Dr History of Jamaica History of Northamptonshire Holland honour HONOUR'D SIR hope Hortus Ingleborough JAMES PETIVER James Sherard kind lately letter Leyden Lhwyd Linnæus London Malham manuscript mentioned months mosses Museum Natural History Naturall never NORTH BIERLEY oblig'd obliged humble servant observations Oxford Petiver Pinax Plantarum pleas'd preserved printed procure published Pulteney quæ RALPH THORESBY receiv'd received Richardson Correspondence Royal Society says seeds sent servt severall shells Sherard to Dr shewed Sir Hans Sloane specimens stone thing Thoresby Thoresby's told Uvedale volume Wales wish Woodward WORTHY SIR wou'd write your's
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Pagina 423 - A Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai and back again, translated from a manuscript written by the Prefetto of Egypt, in company with some missionaries de propaganda fide, at Grand Cairo: To which are added, Remarks on the Origin of Hieroglyphics, and the Mythology of the ancient Heathens.
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Pagina 84 - MORTON, JOHN. The Natural History of Northamptonshire ; with Some Account of the Antiquities. To which is Annexed A Transcript of Doomsday-Book, so far as it relates to That County.
Pagina 443 - A Letter to Dr. Mead concerning some Antiquities in Berkshire, particularly the White Horse in the Vale of that Name ;' also, ' Farther Observations on the White Horse, with an Account of Whiteleaf Cross in Buckinghamshire, and the Red Horse in Warwickshire,
Pagina 181 - ... friends or myself ; in the mean time please to collect all that are not common. " I believe Mr. Catesby will be going for Carolina in a month; I have procured him subscriptions for near the sum he proposed !' " The Pilgrim Botanist Mr. More, whom we heard of in Wales, is desirous of going to New England, and the rest of our Colonies in North America. He is an excellent collector of all parts of Natural History, and desires no more than a poor subsistence ; a mere Philosopher, who designs printing...
Pagina 320 - A friend of mine designs in a little time to go into Scotland ; and desires to know whether in such a journey it may be safe travelling for two or three persons out of the high roads, if they have a mind to seek Antiquities, and to go into bye-roads ; and particularly if they have a desire to trace the Picts Wall from one end to the other.
Pagina 299 - EBORACUM : or the History and Antiquities of the City of York, from its Original to the Present Times, Together with the History of the Cathedral Church, and the Lives of the Archbishops...
Pagina 161 - Avium, wherein he describes the nests he saw on the confines of Turkey and the Danube, one of which, he says, floats. I will furnish you with the books out of print which you want, having some of them already twice over ; for they are good and not very common. Please to...
Pagina 297 - ... repented himself of what he had done ; but there had been so much said about it, that he was willing to give them the preference and refusal of it. Dr. Delaune, President of St. John's College, his last and only old acquaintance left at Oxford, when my Brother was last there, wheedled him out of an hundred pounds, which he borrowed of my brother, to be paid in a little time. The Doctor is since dead, and all his effects seized upon by a judgment which he had given to some friend j so my Brother's...