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92 The Floral King.
History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands,
containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents,
insects and plants; 200 plates, with text in English
and’ French.’ Linnzeus’s opinion, however, was
that ‘‘Catesby was not very particular, with the
exception of his drawings, and he was himself not
proficient in Natural History.” Linnzus desired,
in particular, to visit the celebrated Johan Jacob
Dillenius, a native of Darmstadt in Germany, but
now Professor in Oxford, who had a great renown
as a Botanist, having for eleven years been the
Manager of the famous Botanical Garden at Eltham
in Kent, owned by the Brothers Jacob and William
Sherard, the latter of whom had for many years
been Consul at Smyrna, where he had begun his
great collection of plants. On the death of William
Sherard, in 1728, Dillenius was appointed to the
Chair of Botany in Oxford, for which professorship
William Sherard had left the pecuniary means,
with a view that his large collections might be
scientifically arranged and described, to form a sup-
plement to Casp. Bauhinus’s K.J.U.A.E. Theatri
Botanicit, Basel, 1671.
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