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plants in the Isle of Ely. And to Mr G. S. Gibson for 

 notes concerning the plants inhabiting the south-eastern 

 part of the county. 



Mr Relhan, son of the author of the Flora, placed in 

 my hands a copy of that book containing a few additions 

 made by his father. A copy of the second volume of the 

 first edition of Berkenhout's Outlines of the Natural History 

 of Great Britain and Ireland has fallen into my hands, 

 which belonged to "J. Fisher, B.A. of Christ's College," 

 shortly after its publication in 1770. Yery many localities 

 for Cambridgeshire plants, noticed apparently by him, are 

 recorded in the margins of this book. He seems to have 

 been the Dr John Fisher, LL.D. who subscribed for a copy 

 of the first edition of the Mora Cantabrigiensis in 1785, 

 and the stations were probably nearly all communicated to 

 Relhan. It is a curious list, and shews the great extent of 

 Dr Fisher's researches. His name deserves to be recorded 

 as an active contributor to our knowledge of the local Flora. 



A few plants from Cambridgeshire are preserved, with 

 their localities, in Relhan's Herbarium, which now belongs 

 to the Linnean Society of London. Unfortunately the 

 great majority of his specimens have no notes of the places 

 where they were found appended to them. The Herbarium 

 is thus rendered of very little value. 



There are also some curious entries made by Mr R. 

 Jackson in a copy of Martyn's Meihodus preserved in the 

 library of Trinity College: occasionally they are dated 1730. 



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