380 MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON OLD-TIME NORFOLK BOTANISTS. 
his pen the best known are the ‘ English Botany,’ 1790-1814 
and the ‘ English Flora,’ 1824-1828. 
It is needless to say that Sir J. E. Smith numbered amongst 
his friends and correspondents all the botanists of note, both 
at home and abroad, amongst whom were Dawson Turner, 
F.R.S., of Yarmouth (1775-1857), and Lilly Wigg (1749- 
1828) of the same town. The former was a man of many 
parts, Scholar, Antiquary, and Botanist ; his chief botanical 
work was a monograph of the British Fuci (1808-1819), in 
which he was ably assisted by Lilly Wigg, he was also joint 
author of the ‘ Botanists’ Guide through England and Wales ’ 
(1805), in the Norfolk section of which Wigg also helped. 
Lilly Wigg was a man of humble origin, but much esteemed 
by his contemporary botanists, he made more than one 
addition to the British flowering plants, and many to the 
Marine Algae, one of which Naccaria Wigghii was named after 
him. He and John Pitchford, to be mentioned presently, 
were elected in 1790 in the list of original Associates of the 
Linnean Society. 
In his interesting communication to the Linnean Society 
on Several Norwich Botanists, in addition to the weaver, 
Joseph Fox, before referred to, Sir J. E. Smith mentions his 
indebtedness to a Mr. Wilson, a tailor, part of whose herb- 
arium, formed about the years 1738 and 1740, and scientifically 
named, had fallen into his hands. Christopher Smart, 
also a tailor, Christopher Newman, “ a man in a more 
elevated station of life,” and William Humfrey, were pupils 
of Wilson. To Humfrey Sir Edward refers as ‘‘an amiable 
and communicative man,” to whom he had many obligations, 
he was the discoverer of Ly coper don phalloides. “ The short 
and simple annals,” continues Sir James, “ of these humble 
and disinterested admirers of Nature may seem, perhaps, 
scarcely worthy the attention of the learned and accomplished 
naturalists, but those who have the best claim to such a 
denomination will feel most interest in the success of their 
fellow labourers, how far so ever below their own.” 
John Pitchford was a Surgeon who settled in Norwich 
in 1769, and of whom, on his death in 1803, Sir J. E. Smith 
