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in 1703 by Henry Compton, the celebrated Bishop of London,
who planted the rare trees at Fulham and is known in history
for the part he played in the Revolution as the tutor of the
Princesses Mary and Anne, that we find Dale visiting the Fulham
Garden.
We should remember to-day that the monument erected
to Ray in Black Notley Churchyard was put up largely at the
cost of Bishop Compton.
At the close of Ray's life, he handed over his herbarium
to Dale: the catalogue of Ray's library—some 1,500 volumes—
which was sold for the benefit of the family, was probably pre-
pared by Dale ; and he communicated to the Royal Society
an account of the manuscripts left by Ray, and acted generally
as his literary executor.
Sloane seems to have suggested that Dale should complete
Ray's History of Insects ; but Dale was fully sensible of his own
limitations. "Were it only to finish the English part, I do not
doubt," he replies, "but that with your assistance to do it (being
better acquainted with Mr. Ray's insects than any man), but
the exotic part I cannot fathom, it requiring more brains and
time than I can give ; nor am I master of so good language as
anything joyned to Mr. Ray's would deserve." Ultimately,
as we have seen, this task was accomplished, as Ray seems to
have wished, by Derham.
While a supplement to the Pharmacologia, published in 1705
and almost equal in bulk to the original work, shows Dale's pro-
fessional industry, his herbarium affords abundant evidence of
his continuous interest in botany. Chelsea Physick Garden
he visited almost yearly from 1709 to 1738 ; Oxford, then under
Bobart, in 1709 ; Fulham and Uvedale's garden at Enfield
in 1711 ; Fairchild's nursery garden at Hoxton (where his kins-
man Francis Dale practised medicine) in 1714 ; Sherard's garden
at Eltham in 1721 and several times afterwards ; and Lord Petre's
at Thorndon Hall in 1736. He received also many plants from
Mark Catesby, whom he terms "my kind friend," from Virginia,
Carolina, and Jamaica, and others from his kinsman Francis Dale,
Junior, from the Bahamas. His herbarium labels show that
these were studied with the same minute care as those he collected
himself, their synonymy being discussed in a manner only
possible to an accomplished botanist, and some of them are