The botanist : being the botanical part of a course of lectures on natural history, delivered in the University at Cambridge : together with a discourse on the principle of vitality / by Benjamin Waterhouse.

  • Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846.
Date:
1811
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Credit: The botanist : being the botanical part of a course of lectures on natural history, delivered in the University at Cambridge : together with a discourse on the principle of vitality / by Benjamin Waterhouse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADVERTISEMENT. The Essays, entitled the Botanist, which are here collected in one volume, appeared first in the Monthly Anthology, printed in Boston in the summer of 1804 ; and were continued, from time to time, in a series of numbers, down to 1808. Their appearance was occasioned by the following circumstances : the gentleman who commenced the Monthly Anthology in 1803, had been a medical pupil, under the particular instruction of the au- thor, and made frequent applications to be allowed to publish, in his new work, certain portions of the Lectures on Natural History, which had been giv- en in the University of Cambridge ever since the year 1788 ; and which this editor of the Anthology, and some other pupils, had preserved in their notes. The author, not being willing to trust entirely to their discretion in the selection, nor to their par- tiality in the phraseology, made, in the year follow-