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MEMOIR OF ROBERT WIGIIAM. 
Professor Dickie, Professor of Botany Queen’s College, a very 
clever man and an excellent Botanist. He and I are already fast 
friends. I have also exchanged cards with Professor Thompson 
of King’s College, Aberdeen, and the Rev. — Hincks of Sheffield, 
a very clever young man both as a botanist and zoologist. I am 
much disappointed at Mr. Peach not being present, the cause 
of which I cannot learn, and the Rev. D. Landsborough is at 
Gibraltar; but I accidentally met his son-inlaw, Mr. Stark, at my 
Hotel. He is a nurseryman in Edinburgh, and was over on 
business. The Prince of Canino is here, we went from London 
in the same train. There was also Mr. Lovell Reeve and 
Dr. Lankester, but above all the people in the world who do 
you think was there but old Dr. Fowler, with his old story which 
he had before told at Ipswich. Professor Airey was not, or 
rather is not, present from some domestic cause, and Sir Roderic 
Murchison acted in his stead. Professors Owen and Forbes are 
here, also Sir David Brewster .... We had the Lord Lieutenant 
at the sections on Thursday ; he is a fine looking man, but that 
is all, but he appears to be pretty well received here by all classes. 
To-day I have been out about three or four miles in the country to 
see what they call the Giant’s Ring. It looks like an intrenched 
camp of a circular form, with a cromlech in the middle, and covers 
about four acres. I saw a good deal of Butomus umhellatus in 
the river Laggan, which runs down into Belfast Lough, and also 
a good deal of the Villarsia nymphoides and gathered Chlora 
perfoliata on Bray Head on Tuesday. Professor Allman tells me 
it is not uncommon in Ireland. The excursions will be on the 
9th, and I mean to go to the Giant’s Causeway. Two steamers 
arc engaged to carry the members. After all is over I mean to 
spend a day in the Isle of Arran, and return by Glasgow and 
Edinburgh.” 
Robert Wigharn was throughout his life the valued correspondent 
of many scientific men, but he published scarcely anything besides 
the Norfolk lists already mentioned. He was a man of great 
kindness of heart, especially to the young, whom he always 
endeavoured to interest in those pursuits from which he himself 
derived so much enjoyment. He had but one son, James Bagnett 
Wigharn, who died in 1851. He was the author of a paper 
entitled “ Additional facts respecting the origin of the Sandpipes 
