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appointed in 1791 surgeon mineralogist and botanist to the Sierra 

 Leone company, but returning in 1792, was taken prisoner in the 

 Alert and sent to Quimper and in 1796 shipwreckd in the Amazon 

 on the French coast and detained prisoner at Verdun, where he 

 collected the specimens to which his name is subjoined. He was 

 appointed to the Naid and arrived in port accompanied by La 

 Brigada and Tlietis register ship laden with dollars, w'hen quitting 

 the service he devoted himself to botany and mineralogy, dicing in 

 London 28 Nov. 1818 aged 56, leaving a son Adolphus by his first 

 wife and his second wife a widow without issue. 



Toions. Townsons travels in Hungary, 1797, 4to. Nativ of 

 Shropshire. Accompanying a brother who went in an official 

 situation he died a wealthy planter in Australia. His heirs will I 

 hope give us the observations he must have made on every branch 

 of natural history. 



Trentham garden, on sand and gravel in the valley of the 

 Trent, cultivated by the rector T. Butt is a very extensive 

 collection of hardy plants. 



Upton garden in Essex between Stratford and Ilford, in the 

 valley of the Thames, cultivated by Fothergill the physician, who 

 engaged Miss Lee and professd artists to make colourd drawings 

 of the rarer plants. In conjunction with Pitcairn and Banks he 

 sent out persons to collect plants in the Alps. [See Letts, upt.'] 



Wkithiirn garden on the sea shore of Durham between the 

 Tyne and Wear, cultivated by the rector Mr. Baker. 



Willd. hot. Willdenows principles of botany. 1805. 8vo. A 

 book which should be in the hands of every student. The 

 translators note at p. 464 stands in need of correction. In a 

 future edition the translator will I hope give us t. 10 in colours 

 more accordant with nature. Whatever the original may be that 

 in the translation can only mislead. Surely some of our artists 

 are competent to supply this deficiency. Those who may attempt 

 it will do well to read what M. de Candolle has written on the 

 subject in his theor. 520-526, and naturalists may note down 

 the animals and plants whose colours Linnaeus has described, and 

 discriminate the shades of brunneus badius fulvus ferrugineus in 

 bay horses red cows red deer fawns dormice foxes, w^olves 

 according to Decandolle and fulvous lions. 



Williams, Mr. J. minister of the presbyterian church in 

 Mansfield. [Collected Utricularia minor at Altringham, Lane, 

 (p. 126) and Valerianclla carinata at Calver, Derbyshire (p. 192).] 



Wilsons nursery near Sheffield in the valley of the Dun, on 

 gritstone, contained a very extensive collection of hardy plants, 

 dispersd on the death of the cultivator. 



Wright, W. M.D. memoir of, with a selection of his papers on 

 medical and botanical subjects. 1828. 8vo. with an engraved 

 portrait, which is a striking likeness. It is published by his 

 three nieces as a memorial of their affection, (b. 1735, d. 1819.) 

 [The memoir was, according to a letter, dated 1827, by Anne 

 Wright (one of the nieces?) to Kobert Brown, written by Dr. 

 Mitchell. See Edinburgh garden.] 



