1-00 MEMOIRS OT 



fion, the pulpit, or the enfigns of war, 

 with the Linnean wreaths and the che- 

 mical cryftallnes. Thus the original tri- 

 umvirate received no augmentation, yet 

 the title was maintained. Various obfer- 

 vations, figned Lichfield Botanical Society, 

 were fent to the periodical publications, 

 and it was amufing to hear fcientific 

 travellers, on their tranfit over Lichfield, 

 inquiring after the ftate of the botanical 

 fociety there. 



About the year 17/9, at the houfe of 

 his friend, Mr. Sneyd of Belmont, whofe 

 feat in the wild and hilly part of Stafford- 

 Ihire Moorlands is eminent for its boldly 

 romantic features, Dr. Darwin wrote an 

 addrefs to its owner, from the Naiad of 

 that fcene. Her rivulet originally took its 

 courfe along the deep bottom of cradling 

 woods, luxuriantly clothing the fleeply- 

 floping mountains, which a rough glen, 

 and this it's brook, divided. 



Mr. Sneyd 



