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species or remarkable varieties ; and offers many useful observations 
on the agricultural and other properties of the grasses figured. It 
was printed by Bensley, and the whole impression, with the ex- 
ception of 100 copies in the hands of the binder, was destroyed by 
the fire which consumed the establishment of that printer soon after 
its completion. ‘To this accident Mr. Knapp alludes in a poem, en- 
titled “Progress of a Naturalist,’’ printed at the end of the third 
edition of his ‘ Journal of a Naturalist,’ and in the preface to a new 
edition of the ‘ Gramina Britannica,’ which he issued in 1842, with 
little alteration of the original text and no addition of species. 
In 1818 Mr. Knapp published anonymously a poem in 8vo, en- 
titled «‘ Arthur, or the Pastor of the Village,”’ and between 1820 and 
1830 he contributed a series of articles called ‘The Naturalist’s 
Diary ” to ‘'Time’s Telescope.’ In 1829 he also published with- 
out his name a little work entitled ‘The Journal of a Naturalist,’ 
which gives a pleasing idea of the pursuits by which a country gen- 
tleman imbued with a taste for natural history may amuse his leisure. 
Of this work a second and a third edition have since appeared. 
In 1804 he married Lydia Frances, the daughter of Arthur Free- 
man, Esq., of Antigua, by whom he had seven children, three only 
of whom, two sons and a daughter, survive. Shortly afterwards he 
took up his residence at Llanfoist near Abergavenny, where he con- 
tinued until 1813, when he removed to Alveston in the neighbour- 
hood of Bristol, at which place he died on the 29th of April in the 
present year. His latter years were spent almost entirely in the 
pursuit of his favourite study of natural history and in the cultiva- 
tion of his garden. His unpublished drawings of British Fungi oc- 
cupy five 4to volumes. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society 
in the year 1796, and was also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. 
The Earl of Mountnorris (more generally known by the title of his 
youth, Lord Valentia) was born at Arley Castle, Staffordshire, on 
the 7th of December 1770, and educated at Oxford. In 1789 he 
visited France and Germany ; and in 1802, accompanied by Mr. Salt 
as his draughtsman and secretary, he commenced the interesting 
journey, of which he subsequently published an account, in three 
volumes 4to, under the title of ‘ Voyages and Travels in India, the 
Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt,’ 1802-6. He sat for a short time 
in parliament, and succeeded to the earldom on the death of his 
father in 1816. His own death took place at the seat of his birth 
on the 28rd of July last, in the 74th year of his age. 
His lordship became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1796, and 
of the Royal Society also in the same year. During his travels he 
paid some attention to natural history and made a small botanical 
collection. 
The Marquis of Sligo. 
John Smirnove, Esq. 
John Wedgewood, Esq., of Seabridge, Staffordshire, was conversant 
with various branches of natural history, and especially botany. He 
was also much attached to chemistry and horticulture, and contri- 
buted several papers to the ‘’Transactions of the Horticultural So- 
