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tion, and a second edition was issued in 1778. Hudson had a 

 correspondent at Doncaster called Tofield, after whom he 

 named the genus Tofieldia. My friend, Mr. Daydon Jackson, 

 the secretary of the Linnaean Society, has in his library an inter- 

 leaved copy of Wilson's ' Synopsis,' which is believed to have 

 belonged to Tofield, in which a number of localities are entered 

 in manuscript. 



A 'Flora of England' was printed at York, in 1777, by 

 Stephen Robson of Darlington, but it could not compete with 

 Hudson's, and its circulation was very limited. 



The first edition of Withering's ' Botanical Arrangement ' 

 was issued in 1786. A second and much improved edition 

 came out in three volumes, from 1787 to 1793, and a third in 

 1796. Withering's Yorkshire correspondents were Stephen and 

 Edward Robson of Darlington, the Rev. Wm. Wood of Leeds, 

 who wrote the early articles on botany in the Cyclopaedia of 

 Rees, which after his death were continued by Sir J. E. Smith, 

 and Caley, a protege of Sir Joseph Banks, who travelled as a 

 plant collector in New Holland. 



In 1782 a lengthened botanical visit was paid to the North 

 of England by William Curtis, who founded the ' Botanical 

 Magazine.' He visited the neighbourhood of Settle and col- 

 lected most of the rarities of that district. The paper which 

 he wrote, giving an account of the journey, was published with 

 his ' Flora Londinensis,' and was reprinted in the first volume 

 of the new series of the ' Phytologist,' pp. 36, 84, and 108. 



After the death of Linnseus in 1778 all his collections, 

 both botanical and zoological, and his library, were purchased 

 by Sir J. E. Smith, and removed to London. In 1788 they 

 became the property of a Society in which nearly all the leading 

 naturalists of the day took part, and which received a Charter 

 of Incorporation from George III under the name of the 

 ' Linnean Society,' which still remains in active working order 

 at the present time. In the original list of Fellows there are 

 five representatives of Yorkshire botany : R. A. Salisbury of 

 Chapel AUerton, the Rev. W. Wood of Leeds, William Younge, 



