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species or remarkable varieties ; and offers many useful observations 

 on the agricultural and other properties of the grasses figured. It 

 was printed by Bensley, and the whole impression, with the ex- 

 ception of 100 copies in the hands of the binder, was destroyed by 

 the fire which consumed the establishment of that printer soon after 

 its completion. To this accident Mr. Knapp alludes in a poem, en- 

 titled " Progress of a Naturalist," printed at the end of the third 

 edition of his * Journal of a Naturalist,' and in the preface to a new 

 edition of the ' Gramina Britannica,' which he issued in 1842, with 

 little alteration of the original text and no addition of species. 



In 1818 Mr. Knapp published anonymously a poem in 8vo, en- 

 titled " Arthur, or the Pastor of the Village," and between 1820 and 

 1830 he contributed a series of articles called " The Naturalist's 

 Diary" to 'Time's Telescope.' In 1829 he also published with- 

 out his name a little work entitled * The Journal of a Naturalist,' 

 which gives a pleasing idea of the pursuits by which a country gen- 

 tleman imbued with a taste for natural history may amuse his leisure. 

 Of this work a second and a third edition have since ajjpeared. 



In 1804 he married Lydia Frances, the daughter of Arthur Free- 

 man, Esq., of Antigua, by whom he had seven children, three only 

 of whom, two sons and a daughter, survive. Shortly afterwards he 

 took up his residence at Llanfoist near Abergavenny, where he con- 

 tinued until 1813, when he removed to Alveston in the neighbour- 

 hood of Bristol, at which place he died on the 29th of April in the 

 present year. His latter years were spent almost entirely in the 

 pursuit of his favourite study of natural history and in the cultiva- 

 tion of his garden. His unpublished drawings of British Fungi oc- 

 cupy five 4to volumes. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society 

 in the year 1796, and was also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. 



The Earl of Mountnorris (more generally known by the title of his 

 youth, Lord Valentia) was born at Arley Castle, Staffordshire, on 

 the 7th of December 1770, and educated at Oxford. In 1789 he 

 visited France and Germany ; and in 1802, accompanied by Mr. Salt 

 as his draughtsman and secretary, he commenced the interesting 

 journey, of which he subsequently published an account, in three 

 volumes 4to, under the title of ' Voyages and Travels in India, the 

 Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt,' 1802-6. He sat for a short time 

 in parliament, and succeeded to the earldom on the death of his 

 father in 1816. His own death took place at the seat of his birth 

 on the 23rd of July last, in the 74th year of his age. 



His lordship became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1796, and 

 of the Royal Society also in the same year. During his travels he 

 paid some attention to natural history and made a small botanical 

 collection. 



The Marquis of Sligo. 



John Smirnove, Esq. 



John Wedgewood, Esq., of Seabridge, Staffordshire, was conversant 

 with various branches of natural history, and especially botany. He 

 was also much attached to chemistry and horticulture, and contri- 

 buted several papers to the * Transactions of the Horticultural So- 



