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tion ; *on the 19th December, 1809, a paper, 

 entitled " A Monograph of the British species of 

 " the genus Choleva," which he had communi- 

 cated to the Linnaean Society, was read before 

 that scientific body ;* on the 18th July, 1811, he 

 addressed a letter to the Editor of the Rocking-* 

 ham, which was inserted in that paper, on the 

 pleasures and advantages to be derived from the 

 establishment of a Botanic Garden, then pro- 

 jected, at this place ;f and, in December, 1811, 

 his paper, containing " Observations on the 

 " disease in Turnips termed, in Holderness, 

 " * Fingers and Toes,' " which was afterwards 

 printed, was read before the Holderness Agri- 

 cultural Society. In 1812, he wrote a paper 

 " On an Insect which is occasionally very 



* iTrans. Linn. Sod., vol. 11, p. 123. 



f For the institution of the Hull Botanic Garden, the inhabitants of 

 this town and neighbourhood are indebted to John Cowham Parker, 

 Esq., F.H.S., a most able and zealous cultivator of the science of Botany. 

 The late Dr. Alderson, in his address from the chair, at the first 

 meeting of the Subscribers, justly ascribed to that gentleman all the 

 merit of having laid the foundation of an Establishment so creditable to the 

 town, and so favourable to the study which it was intended to promote. 

 " For this plan of a Botanic Garden," said Dr. Alderson, "which I have 

 " now to propose, we are indebted to the indefatigable exertions of Mr. J. C. 

 " Parker, who has succeeded in obtaining the sanction of the most respecta- 

 " ble part of the town, and I have no doubt he will eventually have the 

 u pleasure of seeing it prosper ; its management cannot be in better hands j 

 " and I trust he will, by your approbation this day, be induced to continue 

 " his exertions in order to complete it." Mr. Spence's Letter and the 

 Addresses of Dr. Alderson and Mr. Parker to the Subscribers were pub- 

 lished, together with the Report of the Provisional Committee and the 

 Laws of the Institution, as a pamphlet, in 1812. 



