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begun, would have reflected great credit on both the individuals 

 concerned in it. The removal of more than one friend of con- 

 genial tastes from the vicinity of Yarmouth contributed perhaps to 

 lessen Mr. Turner's devotion to the study of plants. 



But a mind so highly cultivated and endowed as his was, with 

 a degree of health and strength of physical and intellectual powers 

 beyond most men, would not suffer him to allow the time which 

 could be spared from business to pass unemployed. Besides 

 general literature, he studied and collected pictures, coins, medals, 

 autographs of sovereigns and distinguished people, antiquities, 

 county histories (that of his native county, Norfolk, above all), 

 to an extent which need not be further alluded to here, but which 

 is fully acknowledged by all who have been interested in such 

 pursuits. From his earliest career, and for a period of nearly 

 sixty years, he carried on a most extensive literary and scientific 

 correspondence, all of which he preserved and arranged chrono- 

 logically. Could those letters from the numerous and eminent 

 European botanists of the time be collected together, they would 

 contribute much information on the state of natural science during 

 the first twenty years of the present century, including the period 

 of the last twenty years of the lives of Sir Joseph Banks, and of 

 the first President of our Society, Sir James Smith. Indeed, 

 Mr. Turner long meditated, but never accomplished, the publica- 

 tion of a memoir of our great Maecenas, intending it to comprise 

 a history of the progress of botany up to the death of that 

 distinguished man. 



Mr. Dawson Turner was in his 83rd year at the time of his 

 decease : the grave closed over him and E/obert Brown within a 

 few days of each other, — the one a zealous, and for a while inde- 

 fatigable, and the last of the botanists of the old or Linnean 

 school ; the other the most distinguished promoter of the new or 

 Jussieuan method. 



Mr. Turner became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1797, 

 and had been upwards of 61 years a member at the time of his 

 decease. The following is a list of his Papers in our ' Trans- 

 actions : ' — 



Calendarium Plantarum Marinarum. — Vol. v. p. 126. 



Descriptions of four new species of Fucus. — Vol. vi. p. 125. 



Descriptions of four new British Lichens.— Vol. vii. p. 86. 



B^emarks upon the Dillenian Herbarium. — Vol. vii. p. 101. 



Description of a new species of Lichen. — Vol. viii. p. 260. 



Descriptions of eight new British Lichens. — Vol. ix. p. 135. 



