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Crossland : The Study of Fungi in Yorkshire. 



at Berlin in four parts — 1795, 1797, ^799, 1820. The first three 

 were by K. L. Willdenow. There are a few alterations which 

 I suppose he would consider emendations. ' There are 16 pages 

 of Preface. The translation of Part IV. is by the brothers 

 C. G. and T. F. L. Nees Von Esenbeck, with additional matter 

 including ' Synopsis Generum Plantarum mycetoi dearum.' 

 The outlines of the figures are accurate, usually ; the figures are 

 often rearranged, often reversed .... almost all badly 

 coloured, i.e., colour too vivid, and too dense, frequently 

 different in tint from the original and incorrectly applied. 

 In preface to Part I., Willdenow says : — ' Bolton's work is rare 

 in Germany, and of a high price, and that he has translated the 

 text with great care.'* The first part being issued four years 

 i^rior to Bolton's death, one would almost think some arrange- 

 ments had been made with him for its translation, but there 

 a.re no indications in the German issue that any were. 



Bolton's other works are : — ' K Hi-stor}^ of the British 

 Proper Ferns,' (illustrated), 1785, the first Monograph of Ferns 

 ever published in any country. In 1790, a Supplement was 

 issued containing the British ' Horse-tails.' * Essay towards the 

 Natural History of the British Song Birds.' There are 24 

 supplementary, unpublished drawings of Fungi — 1788-1794, 

 in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), also about 50 drawings of 

 llowers, etc. He did a series of plant drawings for Relhan's 

 ' Flora Cantabrigiensis,' 1785.' He was a member of the Nat- 

 ural History Society of Edinburgh. He sent Cryptogamic 

 plants to J. Dickson, London (Ease. II., pp. 59 and 86). 



Hudson, in 'Flora Anglica,' acknowledges his indebtedness 

 to Bolton among a few other British botanists, for assistance 

 in its production. The same Flora (1788) registers Geastey 

 jovnicatiis sent from Doncaster by a Dr. Tofield. 



Dr. Thomas Flintoff, . Knoj^ton, and Edward Robson, 

 Darlington, sent fungi to Bolton, who refers to them as two 

 ' diligent and well informed botanists. ' Robson also corres- 

 ponded with Sowerby and Withering. He was one of the 

 original associates of the then (1789) newly formed Linnaean 

 Society. He sent a drawing of a Geaster to the ' Gentlemans' 

 Magazine,' Feb., 1792. 



In the Transactions of the Linnaean Society, Vol. ii., 1794, 

 Robert Teesdale enumerated 33 species of Yorkshire Fungi. 



* A. Gepp, Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.). 



Naturalist, 



