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president’s address. 
1792, aged 75 years; buried in St. Andrew’s church, Norwich, 
before the steps of the Alter.” The memorial stone in the floor 
of the church between the pulpit and the entrance to the 
chancel, shows that his wife, whose Christian name was “ Rose,” 
had been buried there in April, 1784. 
Another local botanist was Charles Bryant, Beadle of the 
Court of Guardians of the City of Norwich, brother of the Rev. 
Henry Bryant. In “ Flora Diaetetica ” Charles Bryant says 
(page ix.) : — “ Some time past, Mr. Hugh Rose, Apothecary of 
Norwich, for his own information, set himself about collecting 
the Linnean names of the Esculent Plants ; his list coming 
into my hands, I made as many additions to it as I could.” 
The book, published in 1783, was dedicated to “ James Crowe, 
esqre, of Tuck’s Wood.” 
In the previous year, Bryant had published at Norwich, “-A 
Historical Account of Two Species of Lycoperdons.” This 
met with James Smith’s disapproval : — “ I am sorry 
Charles Bryant should publish his folly and obstinacy to the 
world, for I am afraid those will be the most conspicuous 
characters of his work from the specimen you (T.J.W.) 
mention ; I always thought him a sensible and pretty accurate 
man till now.” 3 ' And T. J. Woodward remarks: — “Though 
I object to the work, I am ready to do the author the justice of 
declaring that I know him to be an indefatigable, and, in most 
instances, an accurate observer and investigator of botanical 
subjects.” 13 Charles Bryant also wrote a “ Dictionary of 
Ornamental Trees ” (1790). 
J. E. Smith’s father had intended that his son should 
engage in the importation of raw silk ; 6 but a letter is still 
extant, written by Mr. James Smith, senior, in which he states 
that his son, being determined to study botany, must also take 
up the study of medicine, as it was only possible at that time to 
attend lectures on botany as part of a medical course/ 1 Accord- 
ingly, on October 11th, 1781, James Edward Smith left 
Norwich to study medicine in Edinburgh, where he had the 
advantage of attending lectures on botany given by Dr. John 
Hope, the first teacher of the Linnean system in Scotland. 
