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T. (((juatica vav. prostntta Sclikulir in Ustevi Annalcn, ii. t. 8 

 (1791). — AitTiiuii Benjnett. 



Thomas Nuttall (1780-1859). A short time ago, I was 

 asked by an American correspondent to sn])ply the burial place of 

 Thomas Nultall, the botanist and ornitliologist. 1 therefore ai)i)lied 

 to tlie Mayor of St. Helens, asking him to put my letter in the hands 

 of some local antiquary who could answer my question. The Mayor 

 was kind enough to place it in the hands of Mr. F. \i. Dixon-Nuttall, 

 who at once gave the desired information, and from his letter I make 

 the following extract as supplying information of interest not only 

 to botanists but to naturalists generally : — 



". . . . Thomas Nuttall lived at Nut-Grove Hall, near Prescot, 

 Lancashire, which was left to him by his brother Jonas, who built it 

 in 1808-9, on condition that he slept there at least one week every 

 six months. One time he was weather-bound just outside the lliver 

 Mersey, and only arrived home the day before the [period of] six 

 months was up ; I remem.ber his speaking of this when I was a boy. 

 He died Sept. 1859, and was interred at Christ Church, Eccleston, 

 near St. Helens. Jonas and Thomas Nuttall were my father's 

 uncles. Jonas left Nut-Grove Hall to my father with the life 

 interest of Thomas Nuttall, and when he died we went to live 

 there." — ^B. Daydon Jacksox. 



A Defiled Saistctuaet. I should like to endorse Mr. Praeger's 

 condemnation of the interference Avith the natural vegetation of the 

 Snowdon district (Journ. Bot. 1921, 354). I know of several in- 

 stances where very amateur botanists, as railway-guards or engine- 

 drivers, have scattered seeds broadcast on the railway-sides, but 

 instances of such interference with natural conditions on the part of 

 competent botanists are happily rare. It is quite possible that some 

 strictly scientihc results could be obtained, if proper limitations were 

 able to be put ; but it seems practically impossible to exercise the 

 amount of care and control necessary to limit the scope of investiga- 

 tion. The experimental questioiiVs would be of a much wider range 

 than the experimenters intended, and future botanists would certainly 

 not bless the hand which introduced needless complications in their 

 attempts to unravel the history of the competitive struggle between 

 the native plants of Snowdonia. — W. Watson. 



Calla PALUSTRis (p. 21). The reference to this plant as an 

 established Surrey species, omits mention of a second locality, viz., 

 by the Hut Pond, Wisle}^ Common, recorded in Journ. Bot. 1915, 

 177, where the present writer stated that in recent years it had 

 flourished exceedingly, and in 1914 was quite a feature of the aquatic 

 vegetation, flowering profusely in July. Formerly, the plant grew 

 only in an adjoining swamp, in no great profusion, but since its access 

 to the pond it has increased exceedingly and is a handsome addition 

 to the pond-flora. The locality " between Esher and Claygate " is 

 presumably the well-known Black Pond on Esher Common, where 

 the occurrence of the plant was noted in an interesting article by 

 Dr. H. B. Guppy in Science Gossip for 1895, p. 109. — C. E. Brittojn. 



