NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY BOTANISTS 



MOSTLY FROM GoODYER's BoOKS AND PaPERS 



In the England of John Goodyer, the stream of Botanical 

 learning was flowing along a very small channel. So small was it, 

 that viewed from the present time after the lapse of three hundred 

 years, the water appears confined to a few isolated pools and back- 

 waters with no certain channel between them. The number of true 

 men of science, as opposed to herbalists, could be counted on the 

 fingers of one hand, and the untimely death or defection of any 

 one of them might have put back the progress of botany for 

 a century. 



The following notes on Goodyer's friends or contemporaries 

 were gleaned from, or suggested by, the study of his own manu- 

 scripts. By their publication we may perchance bring to light an 

 occasional fact which reveals the course of the stream of botanical 

 learning. 



The names of previous owners of his books have been listed : 

 his manuscripts suggest material for more extended notes on some 

 of the following botanists, the others emerged during our research : 

 they are not to be found in the Biographical Index of British 

 Botanists. The identification of the handwritings of some of them 

 was by no means an easy matter : two are still doubtful. 



i. Thomas Penny, c. 1530-1589. 



ii. The 1570 Botanist of Oxford and Winchester. 



iii. Richard Garth, d. 1597. 

 iv, V. William and Sir John Salusbury, 1567-1613. 



vi. M. LOBEL, 1538-1616 and How. 



vii. Wm. Mount, 1545-1602. 

 viii. Richard Shanne, 1561-1627. 



ix. John Parkinson, 1567-1650. 



X. Walter Stonehouse, 1597-1 655. 

 xi. Thomas Johnson, c. i 600-1 644. 

 xii. William How, i 619-1656. 

 xiii. John Dale, d. 1662. 

 xiv. William Browne, 1629-1678. 



