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Hid lialt-liolidiiy.s wci'o mostly spent in rambles with his brother 
liernard, and in learning the names of the birds, and butterflies, and 
flowers they noticed in their walks. !Xor did they neglect the “slugs 
and snails,” for they searched the country round, and collected 
in hedge and marsh nearly a hundred species. !Many j'ears later he 
spoke of the hours thus spent as among the plea.santest recollections 
ot his school-boy days. 
In Juno, 18.55, 8. H. Woodward, then not <juito fourteen years 
of age, stayed a short time at \arni(juth, with Mr. J.)awson Turner, 
KK..S., having been asked to collect plants for him. Early in the 
following year (1831)) his school-days ha<l terminated, and he was 
engaged by I\lr. J urner to work at his extensive collection of dried 
jilants. Accordingly ho left Norwich in February by the river- 
steamer, and found the passage over Jlreydon very plca-sant. 
W'riting homo, ho observes that 
Hundreds of little snow-white Gulls and Terns were running about the 
sands, the Herons were wading breast deep in the shallow water, every post 
had Its long-necked Cormorant, and large flocks of Iloyston Crows * were 
lacking shells out of the mud banks, which being covered with grass wrack 
looked more like a common intersected by ditches than a quick.sand which 
would at most bear a duck or a gull.” 
Ho found plenty to do when he arrived at his destination, and in 
writing to his mother ho says : — 
“ My work this morning [Feb. IGth, 1S3G] consisted in carrying the plants 
from the Ante-library to the Attic, up two long flights of stairs, more than 
twenty times, with as many as I could possibly carry, Mr. T. laughinf^ all the 
time in a manner peculiar to himself.” ° 
T. s collection consists of almost all the Britisli flowering plants a 
vast number of foreign plants, mosses, fungi, &c., &c., named and arran^'l 
according to the old system. These I shall have to clean, re-name and 
arrange according to the present systems. Besides these, Mr. T. has a great 
quantity of unarranged plants (many hundreds) which I shall have also to 
clean, name, fasten on paper and arrange; they are mostly in parcels just as 
they were sent from all the gieat botanists who lived twenty or thirty years 
ago, some of the plants have been in the papei's they are now in more than 
forty years, and the worms have eaten them through and through but they 
arc very valuable nevertheless ! ” ° > J 
In this employment he made great progress with Ids botanical 
knowledge, and for some years afterwards the study of plants 
* Hooded or Norway Crow. 
