Cxl FLORA OF BERKSHIRE 



Dr. Goodenough was permitted to consult the herbarium while 

 preparing a paper on the Carices ; this paper was published in the 

 second volume of the Linnean Society's Transactions, 1794. 



L'Heritier gave the name Lightfootia to a genus of Campanulaceae in 

 honour of Lightfoo.t, and Swartz the same name to a genus of Filiaceae, 

 which is now Prockia, Willd. In Sibthorp's manuscript * Plantae 

 Oxonienses nondum detectae' Lightfoot is said to have found Orchis 

 militaris near Streatley, Berkshire, and Pxjrola rotundifolia at Stoken- 

 church and Nettlebed, but this plant was probably P. minor. 

 Banks. Joseph Banks was born on February 13, 1743, in Argyle Street, 

 London ; he was the only son of William Banks of Kevesly Abbey in 

 Lincolnshii'e. He was sent to Harrow when he was nine years old, 

 and was removed to Eton when thirteen. He is said to have been 

 well-disposed, but so fond of play as to be the despair of his tutors, 

 who could not induce him to fix his attention on his studies. However, 

 one fine summer evening when he and some companions had been 

 bathing in the Thames, he stayed so long in the water that the rest 

 went away without him, and he returned to the school alone through 

 a lane whose sides were clothed with flowers. His interest was 

 excited by the beauty of the flowers, and he determined to know 

 something about them. His first tutor in Natural History was an old 

 woman, who was employed by the druggists of Eton and Windsor to 

 gather herbs ; her remuneration was to be sixpence for every new 

 plant that she taught him to recognize and name. In the next 

 vacation he found in his mother's dressing-room a copy of Gei-ard's 

 Herball, the plates of which, appended to the descriptions, assisted him 

 in the identification of the species. He left Eton at the age of eighteen, 

 and entered as a Gentleman-Commoner at Christ Church, Oxford, in 

 1760. Finding that no lectures in Botany were given by the Professor 

 (Humphrey Sibthorp), he obtained permission to procure a teacher to 

 be paid by the students. He went, therefore, to Cambridge by mail- 

 coach, and brought back one Israel Lyons, who afterwards published 

 a small work on the Flora of Cainbridge. In 1761, on the death of his 

 father, he succeeded to a handsome fortune ; and left Oxford in 1763 

 after receiving an honorary degree. In 1766 he was elected Fellow of 

 the Eoyal Society ; and through the influence of Lord Sandwich, First 

 Lord of the Admiralty, was permitted to accompany Captain Cook in 

 his famous expedition in the Endeavour, taking with him Dr. Solander, 

 the favourite pupil of Linnaeus. In 1771 he received the degree of 

 D.C.L, fi'om the University of Oxford, and in 1772 visited Iceland 

 with Solander, and ascended to the top of Hecla. In 1778 he was 

 made President of the Royal Society. In 1779 he married Dorothea, 

 daughter of William Weston Hugessen, and in the same year was 

 created a Baronet, In 1795 he was gazetted K.C.B., in 1797 was 



