522 WILLIAM PAMPLIN. 
ridden in the ninety-second year of his age, he was able to recount 
to the writer every detail of the tourists’ progress among the moun 
tains of North Wales, and to recall with delight his first impres- 
sions of the Pass of Aberglaslyn. Among scenes of so muc 
a period in itself an ordinary lifetime. The portrait which we 
reproduce was taken in his ninety-second year, 
William Pamplin was born in 1806, at Lavender Hill, Wands- 
worth, where his father was established as a nurseryman ; to this 
the little ‘Catalogue of the rarer indigenous plants of Battersea 
ham,” a perusal of which, having regard to the present 
re. erard’s ace of the London plants of his : 
A perusal of the files of the Phytologist shows that Mr. Pamplin 
nuine love of botanical study. me of his contributions to 
of Geranium Robertianum between Chiselhurst and Bromley, in a 
locality given by Ray. In 1854 he published a ‘ List of the Plants 
of Streatley, Berks, and Goring, Oxon,’ in which he embodied the 
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