ioo ROBERT POCOCK. 



traneous specimens as he had been able to secure 

 them. 



To the first of these folio volumes he has prefaced 

 the following note : Ct The original plants in this book 

 and another volume seem to be arranged according to 

 the system of Morrison, which appeared about the year 

 1680. 



"Other plants have since been added by me, E. 

 Pocock, printer and bookseller, Gravesend (1815), to 

 which I have put their Linnaean names, and inserted the 

 volume and page where a description may be found 

 in Withering' s { Botanical Arrangement of British 

 Plants/ third edition, which ought to accompany 

 these, my two volumes of dried specimens." 



The two has been subsequently corrected into 

 three, by pen, Pocock adding : " Because since the 

 above was written a third volume has been added, 

 containing mostly grasses, rushes, and suchlike 

 sorts."" 



These three volumes, still extant, probably contained, 

 before the ruinous effect of a half-century's neglect, 

 little short of some six thousand varieties, annotated 

 with the greatest care opposite each example, with 

 the place and date, in many cases, of its acquisi- 

 tion. 



But the untiring patience and unremitting perse- 

 verance of Pocock in the pursuit of his botanical col- 

 lections were equal to further efforts and accordingly 

 we find that in or about the year 1817 he commenced 

 a new collection of dried plants and botanical speci- 

 mens, which shall be referred to in its turn. 



There is ever something specially attractive in the 

 ove of Nature for its own sake, and he who can find 



