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at Cockfield, where he was buried on the following Thursday. I deeply 

 regret that the impress of his vigorous mind and hand are not more- 

 clearly seen in this work. It was his earnest desire to take an active 

 part in preparing it for the press. Since his removal, many of his- 

 plants have been placed by his widow in the Editor's hands, who has- 

 been able to glean from them much useful information. 



In an account of the Progress of Botany in Suffolk, mention should 

 be made of those modern workers in the field, who have by their labours 

 prepared the way for the publication of this work. First of these is 

 Mrs. Casborne, daughter of Capel Lofft, Esq., of Troston Hall, and wife 

 of the Rev. W. J. 8. Casborne, of Newhouse, Pakenham. She died 

 October, 1884. Her Herbarium of British plants, now at Troston Hall, 

 is arranged in 25 fol. volumes. It contains most of our British flowering 

 plants, and a considerable number of Cryptogams. It adds 25 species 

 to the Suffolk Flora. 



2nd. A collection of plants in 30 vols. 4to., in the Library of Stow- 

 langtoft Hall, compiled about 1830 to 1834, is believed to be the work 

 of the late Rev. W. Steggall, Vicar of Hunston, and aforetime Assistant 

 Master in Bury St. Edmunds Grammar School. Some of its specimens 

 were contributed by Dr. W. Bromfield, Author of the Flora of Hants., 

 who has supplied specimens to some other Suffolk collections. It re- 

 cords 19 new Suffolk plants. 



3rd. The late Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury, Bart., F.R.S., 

 F.L.S.,F.G.S., &c., furnished two general and four special lists of plants. 

 His extensive Herbarium was not specially examined, as the lists from 

 his own hands rendered this unnecessary. He was born at Messina in 

 1809, the son of Sir Henry Bunbury by his first wife, a niece of Charles 

 James Fox. He left Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1837. He then 

 went to study plants at the Cape. The results were published in 

 Hooker's Journal of Botany, and in the 'Journal of a Residence at the 

 Cape of Good Hope.' He also wrote on the Vegetation of Madeira, 

 Brazil and Buenos Ayres, published in his last work, ' Botanical Frag- 

 ments,' 1883. During his residence at Mildenhall, and subsequently 

 at Barton, he took great interest in the botany of each place, and wrote 

 full and careful catalogues of the plants he found. His valuable Her- 

 barium he left to the University of Cambridge, with power to Lady 



