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president’s address. 
T. J. Woodward and Robert Stone. At that time the two last 
were actually residing in Suffolk, but they lived close to the 
boundary of the county and studied the distribution of Norfolk 
plants, and later they both resided in Norfolk. In the summer 
of 1781, Crowe and Woodward had made a botanical tour in 
the Northern Counties of England, and together they recorded 
the plants, from that district, which in the second edition of 
Withering’s “ Arrangement ” stand in Woodward’s name. 
Sir James Smith called Thomas Jenkinson Woodward “ one 
of the best English botanists.” He was born at Huntingdon 
on March 6th, 1745, and was educated at Eton and Clare 
College, Cambridge. He came to live on the southern border 
of Norfolk about 1770, and before 1782 he married Miss 
Manning, of Bungay. A lawyer at Bungay in Suffolk, he had 
a house there, and also a house at Ditchingham in Norfolk till 
1784, when he gave up both these residences and moved to a 
house newly built in Bungay. 
In 1782, Woodward spent two months at the English Lakes 
with his friend Robert Stone ; and in July, 1785, they made a 
botanical excursion to the Suffolk coast. Stone (1751 ?— 1 829) 
resided in Bungay, perhaps even in the Woodwards’ house, for at 
one time in most of Woodward’s letters to James Smith his name 
is coupled with Mrs. Woodward’s in sending messages."' But 
after May, 1791, he is seldom mentioned in letters, and in April, 
1792, he wrote to Mr. Woodward, who was then in Bungay. 
Before September, 1797, Erythrcea pulchella was “first found 
at Gorlestone ” by Robert Stone 32 ; and in July, 1799, H. A. 
Noehden visited “a botanist named Stone” at “Colston 
Village” (Gorlestone) and had “a great botanical excursion” 
with him, seeing many rare plants.” Perhaps this was the Mr. 
Stone who built the first dock constructed in Southtown ; it 
was unsuccessful and was filled up. About 1809 Robert Stone 
moved to the family estate at Bedingham Hall in Norfolk, 
4| miles' N.W. of Bungay. Stone had a nearly complete 
herbarium of British plants. Paying special attention to the fungi, 
he discovered Hydnum imbricatum and Lycoperdon coliforme. 
