108 
MEMOIR OF THE LATE JOHN SCALES. 
dish of novelties as you found at }"our old one. For my part I have done 
nothing in collecting this age all my time having been engaged in preparing 
our work for the press which we are about setting to work printing forth- 
with. 
From a letter I received from friend P. W. W[atson] the other day I am 
glad to find that Mr. Haworth is safely arrived with all treasures at 
Cottingham. P. W. himself tells me he is now quite a furioso in Cryptogamic 
Botany & has been hunting Ferns at Flambro, Lichens at Selby &c &c. 
I stay here till Saturday & shall spend Sunday at Mr. Hooker Senior’s 
Norwich having taken my place for Ipswich for Monday. If any chance 
should fortunately before then bring you to Norwich I hope you will not 
fail to give me a call. 
I beg my best respects to Mrs. Scales & am 
My Dear Sir in haste, 
Yours very truly 
William Spence. 
If you have any new facts about Fingers & Toes pray favor me with them. 
Wilkin begs his remembrance. 
“ Mr Scales — ” 
2 Mead Place 
Lambeth 
June 2"“ 1819 
Mr. John Scales dated 
Monday morns 30 June* 
My Dear Friends 
I reed, the Parcell and Letter but too late for yesterdays 
post being while the postman was ringing his bell near G o’clock and could 
not possibly get a letter ready. 
The Goosberry blight or JEeidium grossularicB speaks for the remarkable 
change in the season. It is best or safest perhaps to call it as I now do, 
although it resembles 2E'^ Corni E. Fungi f 397 fig 3. or Berberidis 
397 fig 5, either in a younger state than I have figured them have more of 
the orange coloured base. Thus a change of season for a few hours has had 
* This singular memorandum is somewhat confusing. “30 June” is of 
course a mistake ; but the 30th of May, which is most likely meant, fell in 
1819 on a Sunday ! It, however, seems to record the receipt of a letter 
from John Scales to which that here printed is in reply, and thereupon the 
communication to the ‘Norfolk Chronicle’ (reprinted App. D) was written. 
Mr. II. H. Scales informs me that the cutting containing the latter was 
folded in this very letter, thereby proving the connexion of the twoi 
+ ‘ English Futigi,’ one of James Sowerby’s numerous works; 
