of several Kunckh Botanists. 



his pupils were Mr. Christopher Smart, of the same profession, 

 and Mr. Christopher Newman, a man in a more elevated situation 

 in life, both living in my time; as well as Mr. William Humfrey. 

 To the latter, an amiable and communieative man, I have many 

 obligations. He first discovered the Lycoperdon phalhides of Mr. 

 Woodward, the Batarrca of Persoon, a most singular fungus, not 

 known out of this neighbourhood. I shall mention only one more 

 of these humble cultivators of science, Mr. Joseph Fox, a weaver, 

 of whom mention is made in the 2d volume of our Transactions, 

 p. 315, as the first person who ever raised a Lycopodium from seed. 

 He is still living, at a very advanced age, and, without much help 

 from books, has as discriminative a knowledge of our wild plants 

 as most botanists who have made a noise in the world. 



: ' The short and simple annals" of these humble and disinte- 

 rested admirers of Nature may seem perhaps scarcely worthy the 

 attention of the learned and accomplished naturalist; but those 

 who have the best claim to such a denomination will feel most 

 interest in the success of their fellow labourers, how far soever 

 below their own. It appeared to me unjust to pass over in silence 

 those whose taste at least, and perhaps their knowledge, first ex- 

 cited to similar pursuits the more distinguished botanists of whom 

 I am now to speak. 



Some time about the year 1764, if I remember rightly, the Rev. 

 Henry Bryant, at that period one of the ministers of the princi- 

 pal parish here, took up the study of botany as an amusement to 

 his mind after the death of a beloved wife. He was a man of 

 singular acuteness, well skilled in the mathematics, and suffi- 

 ciently master of his time to devote a considerable portion of it 

 to his new pursuit. He was acquainted with Mr. Hugh Rose, 

 then resident as an apothecary in Norwich, who had always had 

 a taste for botany, and with much classical learning, added to a 

 *oj>j.tll. 2 Q systematic 



