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uncouth the appellation I have bestowed upon it, the Linnean 
Society will share my feeling, and nevertheless sutler it under that 
title to descend to posterity.” (See Linn. Trans., vol. G, p. 136.) 
It was not only on the Flora, but he also bestowed considerable 
attention on the birds and fish of the coast and neighbourhood. 
In the 15th volume of the Linnean Transactions, p. 55, it is stated, 
that Mr. Wigg had a specimen of the very rare red-breasted goose 
(A user rnjimllis ), which was killed at llalvergate, in 1805 : ho 
bought it in the Yarmouth market, and not knowing its rarity had 
it plucked and cooked. This was a subject of constant regret to 
him, but lie said the flesh was well flavoured. 
In politics Mr. Wigg was a republican, in religion a Baptist ; but 
for private reasons, he for more than thirty years of his life fre- 
quented no place of worship. The writer in the Gentleman’s 
Magazine states, that his prejudices against the Catholics were 
peculiarly strong ; they were what lie' had imbibed with his mother’s 
milk, and what at the period of his birth were entertained by a 
considerable portion of the community. 
As an author he never appeared before the public ; but it appears 
it was his intention to have done so, and with this view he had 
for many years been collecting materials for a history of esculent 
plants. These MSS. under the title of “Flora Cibaria,” in four 
volumes, and a fifth containing an index, are in the library and 
herbarium at Kew. They contain merely extracts about plants 
used as food in various countries, from books of travel, etc., which 
Mr. Wigg had read, and there is no original matter in any of 
them. In the first volume is a slight pencil sketch of Mr. Wigg, 
drawn from life by Mrs Dawson Turner, in 1804. and he there 
looks like a man near sixty years of age. 
Mr. Wigg left no collection of plants of importance, and his 
Marine Algie collected at Yarmouth must have been scanty, and 
were possibly incorporated with Mr. Dawson Turner’s collection 
now at Kew. 
Mr. Wigg died after a few days’ illness on the 28th March, 
1828, at Gt. Yarmouth, in his 80th year. 
It is said that he left behind him a large accumulation of 
valuable notes on botany and natural history; of which I cannot 
find any trace either at Kew or the Linnean Society, except those 
already mentioned, so that in all probability they are lost to the 
world. 
