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species. Of the plants enumerated in this catalogue by 

 Teesdale, 700 are Phanerogamia, 21 Filices, 100 Mosses, 32 

 Hepaticse, 60 Lichens, 10 inland Algae, and 33 Fungi, none of 

 them microscopic. A second paper, which was published in the 

 fifth volume of the ' Transactions,' contains a catalogue of all 

 the plants known to Teesdale as growing in other parts of the 

 county, with their localities. The two together contain upwards 

 of 900 Phanerogamia and 500 Cryptogamia, so that we may fairly 

 say that before the end of the eighteenth century the botany of 

 the county had been worked out with much fulness, and look to 

 Teesdale as the man who did the largest share of the botanical 

 part of the work, which this society is founded to carry out. 

 He died in 1804, and Robert Brown named after him the 

 Cruciferous genus Teesdalia. A summarised abstract of the two 

 catalogues is given by Turner and Dillwyn in their ' Botanists' 

 Guide' of 1805, with a number of additions from other sources, 

 especially from the Rev. Archdeacon Peirson of Coxwold, 

 Mr. W. Brunton of Ripon, the Rev. Jas. Dalton of Copgrove, 

 and the Rev. J. Harriman of Eglestone. 



There were two other men of this generation who were 

 natives of Yorkshire who left their mark upon botany, though 

 not in our own special field of local research. These were 

 Richard Anthony Salisbury and John Fothergill. Salisbury 

 was a man of considerable fortune, the son of a Leeds clothier, 

 who had a fine garden at Chapel AUerton, of the contents of 

 which he published a description in 1796. Soon after this he 

 removed to London, where he remained for the rest of his life. 

 He wrote a book called ' Paradisus Londinensis,' which con- 

 tains quarto plates, with descriptions, of a large number of curious 

 garden plants. To the ' Transactions ' of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society he contributed a paper in which he suggested, 

 though without characterising them, many new monocotyledonous 

 genera, which have since been adopted. At his death, in 1827, 

 he left in an unfinished state a book on the genera of the 

 petaloid monocotyledonous orders, which was printed many years 

 after his death by Dr. J. E. Gray. He was a man of great 



