Law/on. iij 
fclves for their knowledge in botany> with- 
out publilhing profefledly on tliis fubjed, 
' Thomas Lawson, by whofe difcoveries the 
Englifh Flora was enlarged, muft not be 
forgotten. 
Of Mr. Lawson I can only coUedl, 
that he lived at Great Strickland, in JVeJi^ 
moreland, at the time he tranlmitted to Mr. 
Ray A Catalogue of the Rare Plants of 
the North of 'England which is printed 
in the'* Philofophical Letters/' p. 2 1 3. This 
lift clearly evinces, that the author muft 
have paid great attention to his fubje6t ; and, 
in fad, Mr. Lawson firft introduced feve- 
ral Englijh plants into notice. It is to him 
that we owe the botanical part of Robin- 
son's " Effay on the Natural Hiftory of 
Wejlmoreland and Ci{7nherlandP 
The very frequent mention of his name 
in the writings of Mr. Ray, and the copi- 
oufnefs of the Catalogue of Rare Plants ^ dif- 
tinguiftied by him at fo early a period, in 
the North of England^ fufficiently confirm 
the charadler that eminent naturalift gives 
him, of a diligent, induftrious, and fkilful 
^* hotanift/' It appears that he travelled 
I 3 into 
