1788/01/01 by James R. Bolton · 36 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Psychology · #Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases #Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies #Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions #History #Psychology
paper · open access · doi:10.5962/bhl.title.5394
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My Lord, QCIENCE will flourim under the Patronage of Virtue, and Men of every Clafs will always approve and purfue thofe Studies, which are diftinguifhed with the Regard and Approbation of their Superiors.Not to enter into a Detail of the many excellent Qualities wherewith your Lordihip's Name flands diftinguiflied, I have an allured Right to addrefs you, as a Generous Promoter of a Science the mod: rational and moft pleating, as well as the moft effential to the Life of Man, I mean that of Botany.But as no, Science can be perfectly and thoroughly under- ftood, rill a Knowledge of its conftituent Objects be attained, -Therefore every proper Attempt to difcriminate and afcer- tain its Species, mult be ufeful, in a greater or lefTer Degree, in Proportion to its Succefs.Englifli BOTANY has received many and great Im- provements in the lad: and prefent Ages, and yet the moll b 2 extenfive DEDICATION.extenfive as well as the mod entertaining Branch thereof, the CRYPTOGAMIA CLASS, has been too fuperiicially re- garded.That our Knowledge of the Fungi, the lad Order of this Clafs, is very deficient, will evidently appear from this, that a greater Number of its Species have been a&ualiy gathered, in a Compafs of Ground not exceeding eight or ten Miles round Halifax, than have yet been ascertained in our belt and moft correct Catalogue of the Britifh Plants.