(Vol. vii., pp. 428. 578.)
I am exceedingly obliged for the information afforded by DR. E. F. RIMBAULT
concerning the Bobarts. Can he give me any more communication concerning
them? I am anxious to learn all I can. I have old Jacob Bobart's signature,
bearing date 1659, in which he spells his name with an _e_ instead of _a_,
which seems to have been altered to an _a_ by his son Jacob.
In _Vertumnus_ it says Bobart's _Hortes Siccus_ was in twenty volumes; but
the _Oxford Botanic Garden Guide_ only mentions twelve quarto volumes:
which is correct, and where is it? In one of my copies of _Vertumnus_, a
scrap of paper is fixed to p. 29., and the following is written upon it:
"The Hortus Siccus here alluded to was sold at the Rev. Mr.
Hodgkinson's sale at Sarsden, to Mrs. De Salis, wife of Dr. De Salis."
Is there any pedigree of the family?
In a letter of Jno. Ray's to Mr. Aubrey is the following:
"I am glad that Mr. Bobart hath been so diligent in observing and
making a collection of insects."
Is there any collection extant?
"He may give me much assistance in my intended Synopsis of our English
Animals, and contribute much to the perfecting of it."
Did he do so?
Is the print of old Jacob Bobart, by W. Richardson, _valuable_?
Where can I pick up a print of him by Loggan del., Burghers sculp.? There
is a portrait of Jacob Bobart the younger in _Oxford Almanack_ for 1719;
can I procure it?