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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    THESE ESSAYS ARE DEDICATED TO JOHN ADAMS, LL. D. PRESIDENT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY : AND PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF VISITORS OF THE MAS- SACHUSETTS PROFESSORSHIP OF NATURAL HISTO- RY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE : AND PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: AND LATE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AS A TOKEN OF GRATITUDE FOR HIS EARLY RECOMMEN- DATION OF NATURAL HISTORY TO HIS COUNTRY- MEN, AS EXPRESSED BY HIS ABLE PEN IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS:* AND AS A MARK OF THAT ESTEEM AND RESPECT FOR HIS CHARACTER, SOCIAL, DOMESTIC, LITERARY, AND PO- LITICAL, LONG ENTERTAINED FOR HIM BY THE AUTHOR. Cambridge, July, 1811. » See chap, V. sec. 2.