BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 299 
I can think of none among the reasons of my success—so oe I 
can judge of them—which may not be thought of as due i 
degree to this part of my apprentice-life. My early associations 
with scientific men; my readiness to work paeoi napn in museums 
and arrange them, and make catalogues; the unfelt power of ee 
serving and of recording facts ; these and many more helps towards 
happiness and success may justly be ascribed to the pursuit of 
botany. And as I look back, I am amused in thinking that of the 
ances and names and botanical arrangemen ants—none ha 
in my after-life any measure of what is called practical utility. The 
aoe: was useless; the discipline of acquiring it was beyond 
all pri 
Bion: Memoirs and Letters of Sir James Paget ; edited by — 
Paget, one of his sons, 1901, pp. 25-28. 
Wituiam Pare (fl. 1732-8). 
Mr. Archer Briggs in this Journal for 1872 & 174) called 
attention to an old herbarium containing about five hundred com- 
mon wild or garden plants, then in the a a Mr. Clark, of 
Efford Manor, near Plymouth, to a member of whose family it was 
Servant, Wm. Paine, Botanist, collected from the Sea, Rivers, 
Fields, Woods and Gardens of Most Parts of y° West of England, 
Anno Dom. 1782.” Mr. Briggs inquired whether more of Paine’s 
Gildckions:: were in existence, but hitherto no answer has been 
forthcoming. There is in the Sloane Eebariany vol. 317, a col- 
lection entitled ‘‘ Filax’s and Fungus’s Taken in y® West of England 
by Wm. , This ext Botanist, ol ” with an cetogeaidh catalogue of 
contents. T tends to two hundred numbers, which are disposed 
on nine shee : the names are alli in English, with one or two notes of. 
localities. The co ction inclu besides ‘‘ filax’s and fungus’s’’— 
mosses, Marine slaw, Cuan illbbaen, ieneme rotundifolia, and 
the egg-purse of “ skate, with the note: ‘This is Call about. 
poole and waymout Toads. skins, about Barnstaple and Bideford. 
pixeys purses, eibes Looe and Fowy meg merrins purses, about. 
Portsmo - and Gostport purses. N.B.: its y*° Bagg that houlds— 
y°® food or spawn of y™ wray fish.’ Among the ferns is ‘‘ Welsh 
Fern, or reed polypodey plenty about ag ””?; ** sweet cicely ’’ 
(Myrrhis) is included among them. In the herbarium of Joseph 
Andrews,* the Sudbury apothecary and friend of Dale—which came 
into the possession of the Rev. Jolin Hemsted, of Bedford, and was 
Paine, B den 
scription; from this it would appear that his indus 
confined to the West of England. It is evident from rad lists tye 
* We hope before long to publish some‘notes on this interesting collection. 
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