MR. PETER HOTTON

OF AMSTERDAM,

JOHN RAY.

After so many methods of botanical science original: "Doctrinæ Herbariæ", my most honored friend, have been published not so long ago by the most excellent botanists of this century—Mr. Robert Morison, Mr. Paul Hermann, Mr. Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, and Mr. Joseph Pitton Tournefort—it might perhaps seem superfluous, if not indeed rash, to [offer] our own...