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the district, and had begun the study of fungi, which was then 
a terra incognita to all, save two or three, British botanists. 
In the sixties it was customary to begin the course of training 
for the medical profession by apprenticeship to an established 
practitioner. Plowright was accordingly indentured to the 
late Dr. John Lowe, Surgeon-Apothecary to the Prince of 
Wales, and Surgeon to the West Norfolk and Lynn Hospital ; 
and as his apprentice he became a pupil at the Hospital in 
October, 1865. Subsequently he studied at Glasgow, and 
was a dresser under Professor Lister, who was then introducing 
the antiseptic system of treatment at the Royal Infirmary. 
He took the Diplomas of M.R.C.S., England, and L.R.C.P., 
Edinburgh, in 1870, M.D., Durham, 1890, and was made 
Hon. F.R.C.S., England, in 1893. After serving as House 
Surgeon to the I.ynn Hospital, he settled down in practice 
at Lynn, maintaining his connection with the Hospital as 
Hon. Surgeon and Consulting Surgeon. “ Dr. Plowright 
had a high reputation as a skilful and careful surgeon, and 
had an extensive practice throughout West Norfolk ” ( British 
Medical Journal). 
A course of medical study is considered by the majority of 
students sufficient occupation, but Plowright found it possible 
to continue his favourite study of fungi during the same period. 
When ill for a few weeks at Glasgow, he employed his enforced 
leisure in copying the paintings of Sowerby’s British Fungi, 
a scarce book, which happened to be available there, to assist 
him in his future work ; and by the time he was House Surgeon 
at Lynn, his knowledge was so far advanced that he was able 
to issue sets of named specimens of British Pyrenomycetes 
under the title Sphceriacei Britannici. In 1872, he contributed 
to the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society a list of 
about 800 Norfolk fungi, which he further extended to about 
1500 in 1884. He was made an Honorary member of this 
Society, and was President in 1894-95. 
Though Dr. Plowright’s knowledge covered the whole 
field of systematic mycology, and was especially valued in 
England with regard to the Agaricacece, his wider reputation 
rests on his own investigations into certain groups. At the 
