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Island toi^othi'v; ami Halt" visitoil him at SiuUnirv in 17l2'). 17l?'J. 

 17133, .17IH auil 17'>S (^St'o the amumt of Palo in tliMini. Hot- 

 1883). ^\'illianl 8honu\l, writiu>;- to Kii-hanlson on .Inly 'Jl. l7'J-< 

 siivs " ^ly brother . . . talks i>l' o'onii;' . . . ti) Mr. Halo and Mr- 

 Andvows, at Sudbnry. in SuH'olk ; so to NewniarUot and Candn'idi^o ; 

 and it is jn-obahlo, when tluMo. may make a trip into the Kens" 

 (Kiehardson Corresp. ISl"). As Andrews visited tho Isle of Kly in 

 that year, they may have gone together. 



All the earlier speeiniens in the llerbarinm are, as might be 

 jnvsnnied, labelled in aeemxlanee with the seeoml (^ UiSH?) edition ot" 

 Ray's Si/iiopn/a \ bnt .Vndrews's own eopy of the Hillenian eilition was 

 in the possession of the late W. A. Clarke. Fn)ni one entry in this 

 work it may, perhaps, be inferred that at the time oi writing it 

 (^172 t) nillonlus "was not personally aeqnainted with Andrews. On 

 p. 2oii, nnder " (\iryo]>hyllata montana pnrpnrea " {(icin» rira/c L.) 



Dillenins has, " Fonnd in a Hog, abont a Mile from Sndbnry in 



Essex, by Mr. Allen Apotheeary there " ; whilst in Andrews's own 

 copy of the book " Essex " is eorreeted to "• Snffolk " and " Allen "' io 

 "Andrews.'' This eopy of the Dillenian Si/iiopsis has on its title 

 tlio antograpb "Joseph Andrews, Sudbnry, Suffolk"; and the few 

 marginalia that it contains consist of English names for fnngi, eross- 

 veferenees, and a few slight eorrei'tions, bnt include rcfiMrnees to 

 Gerard "tier, emac," " R. Hist. vol. i.," "Miller's Card. Diet, 

 vol. 2 under Lichen," " Boerhaavo's Hist. Plant." — probably tho 

 7/iih\r which was ])nblished in 1710 and l^\}rha\n» Phi/sico-flicoloi/i/ 

 which belongs io I7lii : this last, under Cicufd, is to the elYect that 

 that plant '•cures the Farcis in Horses." 



Two begging letters among the Sloane MSS., signeil J. .\ndn>ws— 

 one, in Latin, dated 1722, tho other in English, but referring to 

 previous Latin correspondence and dated 1 7;U, — are both from J^ontlon, 

 and, though in handwriting not unlike the herbarium tickets, are not, 

 we think, by Andrews of Sudbiuy ; nor is there any satisfactory 

 evidence to connect him certainly with the associate of Petiver anil 

 AVyche in the inspection of the Chelsea Garden in 1 7(.>7 already 

 mentioned. 



From all the biographical cvidenee, including that of the tickets 

 in the herbarium, it seems jirobable that Andrews was a native of 

 Sudbury : he was at any rate, as we have seen, established tlu're as an 

 apothecary in 17 U?. He was very ])i'obably {i})j)renticed to Mr. John 

 Field, A[)othccarv of the Bell in Newgate Street, fnun whom ho 

 mentions having received specimens, and who is described by Henry 

 Field (()/>. cif. 101) in connection with the affairs of the Chelsea 

 Garden as " an active and intelligent member of the Society " oi 

 Apothecaries. At all events Field gave him i)lants, showed him 

 localities and botanized with him at Hamjistead and elsewhere near 

 London. Having, as we have seen, made the acquaintance of Dale 

 and Shcrard, Andrews was elected a Fellow of the Royal ScuMety in 

 1727. He seems seldom to have gone far from Sudbury — liraintree, 

 Ipswich, Newmarket, Ely, Thetfonl and Norwich being ajiparcntly 

 the limit of his divagations. The latest date on the herbarium tickets 

 is Julv 2S. 171)2. 



