300 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Paine was a man of no education—his claim to the title ‘“botanist’” 
seems to have consisted in the a of collections for sale; 
but, as inquiry has been made, it may be worth while to place on 
record what has been stlsbieined about him 
~ _... THomas PALGRAVE (1804- -1891). ; 
The reference to Palgrave under Paget (see above) suggests an 
extract from his first letter to W. Wi Ison, written from Liverpool, 
where he was a solicitor, on 28 April, 1856. “His letters, up to 
Dec, 1869, are, as stated in the Biographical Index, in Wilson’s 
Correspondence i in the Department of Botany. From 1866 he was 
living at Llansaintffraid, near Conway. 
commenced the pursuit [of muscology] as a schoolboy in 1818, 
and followed it closely for some years in Norfolk, and with the assist- 
ance of Dr. Greville and my relatives Hooker and Turner made 
nearly a complete collection of all the Mosses named in Hooker and 
Taylor’s 1st edition, ene oid gathered many of the alpine mosses 
in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Engrossed by my professional 
avocations in Liverpool for the last twenty- -five years, I have made 
but little progress in the study, more particularly as I knew no one 
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doubtful about, ‘and is going through. my ms ollection -assorting: 
them with reference to your work which I have recently purchased.” 
In a subsequent letter (29 July, 1856) Palgrave speaks of meeting 
by chance his “‘ cousin Sir W. Hooker in April last year, when at 
seventy years of age he walked over Snowdon and ee part of 
North Wales as well as myself, twenty years his junior. 
James FropsHam Kosinson (1838-1884). 
The following passage from Sir Mountstuart EK. Grant Duff’s 
an from a Diary, 1881-86, vol. ii. p. 9, refers to the above- 
med :— 
vi Job Warren writes . . ‘A day or two back writes New-' 
o announce the demise ‘of a certain gino who was a m 
of singular proclivities, and who, by his niaided efforts, nearly 
(some say quite) spoilt a volume of tepogeeimatat botany. He 
lived, moreover, in a district of whose flora I had special charge, 
and no’ Rubus was half the thorn in my flesh that he was. His 
ofeinal and amiable 4 idea was this. When he wanted to 
find a rare ploaitk any given spot, where it had as yet been fruit- 
Perhaps in - Elysian plains the — ar find a plant and its actual 
occurrence m n the present imperfection 
of earthly afar, he gave (while he was ic tieneds Watson and myself 
a world of perplexity. 
e ‘* volume of topographical botany’’ referred to is of course: 
Watson's well-known work, Topographical Botany. In 1878 Robinson 
(whose name is erroneously given by Watson as ‘J. Frederic’ 
sent to him London Catalogues ‘checked for plants seen” in the 
