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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    ing, a selection for himself, from the botanical part of his lectures. His individual wish was to com- mence the selection from the Mineralogical part of the course; and so pass on to the Vegetable, and close with the Animal kingdom ; but he relinquished it, on the suggestion that mineralogy would be less popular than botany; and therefore less adapted to such a monthly magazine of knowledge and plea- sure, as the Anthology was meant to be ; and less likely to attract the attention and patronage of read- ers of both sexes, The author was biassed by another, and a strong- er reason, in favour of botany. There had never been any lectures on Natural History in the United States prior to the course referred to. Neither had Botany nor Mineralogy been publickly taught in any part of the Union anterior to the year 1788 ; excepting, indeed, a short course of twelve lectures, on Natural History in general, given by the author in the college at Providence, in the years, 1786 and 1787; he being, at the same time, Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic in the University at Cambridge. After the Lectures on Natural History had been given at Cambridge, four or five years, they began to excite some curiosity beyond the walls of the