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London Mag.

MR PETER COLLINSON.

THE

LONDON MAGAZINE.

FOR JANUARY,

1776.

For the LONDON MAGAZINE.

MEMOIRS of the late Mr. PETER COLLINSON, Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Society of Antiquaries in London, and of the Royal Societies of Berlin and Upfal.

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(WITH AN ELEGANT ENGRAVING:)

HE fatisfaction arifing from the view of a life continually employed in commendable purfuits, and in acts of lasting and extenfive utility, is not a fmail one. We participate afresh in every focial action of the friend whom we loved whilft living, and pay that tribute to his name which love and friendship demand-a grateful and honourable remembrance.

The juft efteem which Mr. Peter Collinfon had acquired, among the chief promoters of natural history in moft parts of the world, and among men of understanding in general, in every part of useful fcience; muft render any apology unneceffary for exhibiting fome account of him.

Mr. Peter Collinfon was the greatgrandfon of Peter Collinfon, who lived on his paternal eftate called Hugal Hall, near Windermere Lake, ten miles from Kendal in Westmoreland. He was born in the year 1693, and whilft a youth he difcovered a strong attachment to natural history. Infects, and their feveral metamorphofes, employed many of thofe hours, which at his time of life are moftly fpent by others in very different purfuits. Plants likewife engaged his attention; he began early to make a collection of dried fpecimens, and had access to the heft gardens in the neighbourhood of London. In the year 1740 he was confidered among thofe who were beft acquainted with botany and natural history in England his collection was very large the fpecimens well chofen-his botanic garden contained many curious plants not to be met with in any other, and

the number of fuch kept increasing to the laft period of his life.

The first rate naturalifts of the age, Drs. Derham, Woodward, Dale, Lloyd, Sir Charles Wager, and Sir Hans Sloane, were among his friends -He was one of thofe few who vifited Sir Hans at all times familiarly, and continued fo to do to the latest period-and among the great variety of articles which formed his friend's fuperb collection, fmall was the number of thofe, with whofe history Mr. Collinfon was not well acquainted. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, December 12, 1728, and was one of the moft diligent and useful members of that refpectable body, not only in fupplying them with many curious obfervations himself, but in promoting and preferving an extenfive correfpondence with learned foreigners in all countries, and on every useful subject — and thus excited others to contribute largely to the inftruction and entertainment of the fociety.

Indeed he fuffered nothing useful in either art or fcience to escape him. -There were but few men of learning and ingenuity of all profeffions who were not of his acquaintance-he acquainted the learned and ingenious in diftant parts of the globe with the difcoveries and improvements in natural history in this country, and received the like information from the most eminent perfons in almost every other. His correfpondence with Cadwallader Colden, Efq; of New York, and the celebrated Dr. Franklin of Philadelphia, furnifh many inftances of the benefit refulting from his attention to all improvements. To him Dr. Franklin communicated his first B 2

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