Warner. 
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believe, about the year 1747 or 1748 ; be- 
came a Fellow of the Royal Society ; and 
was the writer of an inftrudlive memoir On 
the Preparation and Ufes of the various 
Kinds of Pot-Afli/' PhiLTranf. VoK 
xlv. p. 541 — ^563. And of A Letter 
*^ concerning the Force of Eledlrical Cq^ 
hefipn/* Vol, li. p. 390, 
WARNER. 
Richard Warner, Efq^ of Woodford" 
Rowy in EJfex, merits a particular remem- 
brance at this period, for his regard to the 
fcience of botany, and the refped: and ho- 
nour he ever fhewed to the lovers of it. 
He was bred to the law," as we are in- 
formed in the ^ Anecdotes of Mr. William 
BowYER,' " and had chambers in Lin- 
" coins Inn ; but, being polTelTed of a genteel 
fortune, refided at a good old houfe on 
Woodford Green.'' Here he maintained a 
botanical garden, and was very fuccefsful in 
the cultivation of rare exotics. He was 
not unacquainted with indigenous plants. 
The herborizations of the Company of 
Apothecaries were, once in the feafon, 
ufually 
