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WEST YORKSHIRE RECORDS AND NOTES. 
FROM THE HERBARIUM, CATALOGUES, ETC., OF 
THE LATE Mr. JOHN TATHAM, OF SETTLE. 
WILLIAM WHITWELL, F.L.S. 
THROUGH the painstaking kindness of the Misses R. F. and 
F. P. Thompson, of Settle, I was enabled to contribute a large 
number of records to Mr. F. Arnold Lees’ ‘ Flora of West Yorkshire, 
based upon specimens and memoranda left by their grandfather, the 
late Mr. John Tatham. The examination of Mr. Tatham’s herbarium 
and notes was not, however, begun until the printing of the ‘ Flora’ 
was somewhat advanced, and in consequence many items of value 
obtained thereby were too late to be of service then. Also, the 
arrangement of the collection is on the Linnzan system: this 
occasioned the omission of various others. 
In addition to his actual herbarium specimens, and a catalogue 
of them, Mr. Tatham left numerous memoranda in note-books and 
in his copy of the late Mr. Henry Baines’s ‘Flora of Yorkshire.’ 
From the three sources the Misses R. F. and F. P. Thompson have 
compiled a supplementary list of West Riding localities for which 
Mr. Tatham’s name may stand as authority, and have favoured me 
with it. I have checked the list with the ‘Flora of West Yorkshire,’ 
and after careful consideration of the several items (and in a number 
of cases the obtaining of the actual specimens, most of which 
aker has obliged me by examining) have made the 
subjoined extracts from it. 
Mr. F. A. Lees has referred (‘Flora,’ page 233, etc.) to 
r. Tatham’s repute as an observer. The following brief biographical 
bei will not be out of place respecting one whose name will 
always claim honourable mention in the annals of Lichen botany. 
For these also I am indebted to his grand-daughter 
JoHN TaTHAM was born at Settle, Yorkshire, on the 20th 
September, 1793, and was educated at the neighbouring and well- 
known Giggleswick Grammar School. He served a seven years’ 
apprenticeship to Mr. Thomas Thompson, of Liverpool, in the 
business of chemist and druggist, and continued with him for two or 
three years afterwards as assistant. Returning to Settle, he entered 
into partnership with his father, in the same line, and at Settle he 
passed the remainder of his life. 
It was during his residence at Liverpool that Mr. Tatham first 
turned a attention to botanical study, a favourite recreation with 
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