president’s address. 
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the magistrates before whom a man was convicted for “working 
and digging in his garden, and openly profaning the Sabbath.” 7 
The “Annual Register ” records that on October 16th, 1804, 
“ a singular escape from the most impending danger, happened 
to James Crow, esqre., of Lakenham, Norfolk. As he drove 
himself through Catton, in his one horse carriage, he passed 
under a tree at that time felling ; the tree fell upon the horse in 
the chaise, and instantaneously killed it, without Mr. Crow’s receiv- 
ing any, the slightest injury ! ” (Ann. Reg., XLVI., p. 422). 
James Crowe died on January 26th, 1807, in the 57th year 
of his age. He was buried in a vault in the church of his own 
manor at Lakenham. On his monument in the sanctuary of 
that church are represented a spray of Salix Groweana and a 
branch of Crowea Saligna. The male plant of S. Groweana 
having been discovered at Cranberry Fen, East Winch, by Mr. 
Crowe, Dr. Smith named it after him. Croxoea Saligna , a 
New Holland plant, was so named to commemorate him and 
his love for willows. 
Crowe’s epitaph stated that “ His excellent understanding 
and penetrating judgment applied to the study of Mankind and 
of History confirmed him in principles truly worthy of a Briton 
and a Man ; the same talents applied to the study of Nature, 
more especially of Botany, were ever devoted to practical 
utility.” 
Writing from Norwich on February 4th, 1807, to Sir 
T. G. Cullum, Smith says of Crowe : — “ I was almost 
every day with our deceased friend. ... I scarely know any 
friend here that I should miss more than Mr. Crowe. No one 
knew the good parts of his character better than I, and what- 
ever faults he might have, he was a man very much to be 
loved if not implicitly imitated. I certainly never knew a 
better head, and as far as I was concerned with him he has for 
near thirty years been to me invariably serviceable.” i7 
In the introduction to the “ Tracts relating to Natural 
History,” which Smith dedicated to James Crowe on January 1st, 
1798, Smith says : — “ I cannot help recurring to that still more 
early period, when your partial encouragement and assistance 
