MR. EDWARD HOBSON. S15 
He also mentions having sent Mr. Baines an 
“Entomological Nomenclature, which he had got 
a friend to print for him, taken from Samouelle’s 
compendium, with a few additions, which may be 
useful to him for cutting up to put to his collec- 
tion, or may answer as a memorandum book to 
know what he had got.” 
On the 27th of November, of the same year, 
Hobson writes to Cayley, to inform him that “in 
consequence of the extension of buildings round 
Manchester, many of their favorite resorts were 
so altered as scarcely to be known, and that he 
had not been able to find a single specimen of a 
plant which Cayley wished him to send from 
Scarweal Clough, seven or eight houses having 
been built upon the top of the bank, and the 
clough cut up into gardens.” 
On the 12th May, 1828, Hobson received an 
invitation to preside at the annual dinner of the 
Bury Botanical Society. 
In a letter from Cayley, of the 26th Decem- 
ber, 1828, he asks Hobson “if he had ever 
attended to the varieties of the blackberry, and 
mentions Baguley moor, Sale moor, Ashton moss, 
