of several Norwich Botanists. 
his pupils were Mr. Christopher Smart, of the same profession, 
and Mr. Christopher Newman, a man in a more elevated situation 
in life, both living in uvy time; as well as Mr. AVilliam Hum! rev. 
To the latter, an amiable and communicative man, I have many 
obligations. He first discovered the Lycoperdon phalhidcs of Mr. 
Woodward, the Batarrea of Persoon, a most singular Aittgui, not 
known out of this neighbourhood. I shall mention only one more 
of these humble cultivators of science, Mr. Joseph Fax, a weaver. 
of whom mention is made in the 2d volume of our Transactions, 
p. 315, as the first person who ever raised a Lycopodium from seed, 
lie is still living, at a very advanced age, and, without much help 
from books, has as discriminative a knowledge of our wild plants 
as most botanists who have made a noise in the world. 
" The short and simple annals" of these humble and disinte- 
rested admirers of Nature may seem perhaps scarcely worthy the 
attention of the learned and accomplished naturalist; but tliosc 
who have the best claim to such a denomination will feel most 
interest in the success of their fellow labourers, how far soever 
below their ow r n. It appeared to me unjust to pass over in silence 
those whose taste at least, and perhaps their knowledge, first ex- 
cited to similar pursuits the more distinguished botanists of whom 
I am now to speak. 
Some time about the year 1?G4, if I remember rightly, the Rev. 
Henry Bryant, at that period one of the ministers of the princi- 
pal parish here, took up the study of botany as an amusement to 
his mind after the death of a beloved wife. He was a man of 
singular acuteness, well skilled in the mathematics, and sufli- 
ciently master of his time to devote a considerable portion of it 
to his new pursuit. He was acquainted with Mr. Hugh Uose, 
then resident as an apothecary in Norw ich, who had always had 
a taste for botany, and with much classical learning, added to a 
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