MEMOIR OF DAVEY. xi. 



August, 1911. In 1905 the Institution awarded him, for his 

 treatises on the Botany of Cornwall, published in its Journal, its 

 triennial Henwood Gold Medal, which was then for the first 

 time given for botanical research. 



Davey's Tentative List of Flowering Plants, Ferns, etc., of 

 Cornwall was published privately, and not for sale, in 1902. It 

 was printed on one side of the paper only, and sent to all those 

 who were doing field work in the County, and they were asked 

 to enter their records on the blank pages. It was the first time 

 a Prodromus to a County Flora had been issued, and very 

 useful it proved to be. It brought together most of the previously 

 scattered records; it informed workers what had been done; and 

 showed plainly what was wanted. It also showed workers that 

 their earlier records had been duly noted, and so encouraged 

 them to further research. The copies supplied to them were 

 recalled in the autumn, 1905, and then Davey settled down to 

 the production of the Flora. This was printed and published 

 by F. Chegwidden, of Penryn, in 1909. It is a fine demy 8vo. 

 volume of over 600 pages, and has a good map of the County 

 divided into eight botanical districts, and portraits of six deceased 

 Cornish botanists. In writing the Flora, Davey took infinite 

 pains to eliminate erroneous and doubtful records. He knew that 

 some doubtful records by living amateur collectors remained, but 

 the difficult position in which a refusal of them would have 

 placed him was fully appreciated. 



Knowing Davey as well as I did, any appreciative remarks 

 of mine on the Flora might be considered biassed, so I will 

 content myself with a few quotations from independent botanists. 

 In the Report of the Botanical Exchange Club of the British 

 Isles, 1909, Mr. G. C. Druce writes : "Mr. Davey is to be con- 

 gratulated on the completion of an excellent work"; and, in 

 1915: * * The Flora was a well-written and trustworthy description 

 of a very interesting area." In the Journal of Botany, January, 

 1916, in an obituary notice, the Editor writes of Davey as ** the 

 author of one of the best of our more recent local Floras"; 

 and of the Flora he says : " The review published in the 

 Journal (1909, 388) gives an appreciative if somewhat critical 

 notice; it may be doubted whether any Flora owes more to 

 steady personal investigation, hindered though this was by ill- 

 health and business avocations." Davey's own copy of the 

 Flora is interleaved, and contains many notes made by him, 

 which are published in the present Supplement. During his 

 last illness he handed it over to me. 



In addition to his earlier papers to the Royal Cornwall 



