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library were destroyed by fire, which was beUeved to have 

 been caused designedly by a servant to conceal a robbery. 

 After this he gave up his practice and removed to Jermyn 

 Street, where he died in 1793. His records of localities for 

 the Lake district are mostly expressed in general terms. 

 Linnaeus named in his memory the genus Hudsonia in 

 CistacecB. 



1763. Martyn's ' Plant^e Cantabrigenses ' contains in the 

 appendix, pp. 102-105, a list of the plants of Westmoreland, 

 arranged under their localities. It is entirely compiled from 

 Lawson and Wilson. 



1777. Nicholson and Burns' 'History and Antiquities of 

 the Counties of Westmoreland and Cumberland ' contains a 

 catalogue of plants for each county. 



1782. In this year William Curtis, the originator of the 

 ' Botanical Magazine ' and author of ' Flora Londinensis,' 

 made a botanical excursion through the northern counties, an 

 account of which will be found reprinted in the new series of 

 the ' Phytologist,' vol. i. pp. 36, 84, and 108. 



1 787-1793. Withering's 'Botanical Arrangement,' second 

 edition, 3 vols., contains a number of stations in the Lake 

 district, contributed by Mr. T. J. Woodward of Bungay, who 

 visited the Lakes in company with Mr. Crowe of Norwich in 

 1 781, and a few more were inserted in this and later editions 

 from Mr. Hall, Mr. Atkinson, and the Rev. Mr. Jackson. 

 Woodward was one of the most eminent English botanists of 

 the Smithian era, and after him the fern-genus Woodwardia 

 was named. His contemporary, Goodenough, the mono- 

 grapher of the English Carices, was for a few years at the 

 end of his life Bishop of Carlisle. His extensive herbarium, 

 which was presented to Kew about 1880 by the corporation 

 of Carlisle, did not, however, contain any Lake plants 

 specially localised. 



1794. Hutchinson's 'History of the County of Cumberland 

 and some Places adjacent,' 2 vols., Carlisle, republished in 



