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PRESIDENT’S address. 
kindly invited us to her house more than once. Turner was 
very busy in correcting the proof sheets of his Muscologia, 
which is, I suppose, by this time nearly finished printing, but 
we had little leisure for any botanical conversation, as Powell 
prohibited it of an evening, and all the rest of my time was 
employed in military duties. So great was the alarm during 
the latter part of our residence in Yarmouth that we fully 
expected orders to remain in quarters there.” 3 ' 
A few days later the several Companies of Norfolk 
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Woodward was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of 
the 9th Battalion. 4 
In 1801 Dr. Goodenough had written from Windsor on 
October 17th to Dr. Smith : — “I augur from the arrival of 
peace at last (Oh, that it may last !) that Natural History in 
particular will raise its head. We shall meet folks whom we 
have not seen for years, and of course shall have so much to 
tell and so much to ask that we shall never have done.” 37 
Owing to war, England was cut off from intercourse with 
foreign botanists, but beyond this, Smith initiated an insular 
neglect of continental work. “ During the lifetime of Smith 
the Linnaean arrangement was stoutly maintained, and any 
other system decried by him, whilst ownership of Linneus’s 
Herbarium gave weight to his utterances.” Jussieu’s “ Genera 
Plantarum,” published in 1789, is “ the virtual foundation of 
the views of plant-classification now current.” 34 
The library of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society 
contains Woodward’s interleaved copy of Hudson’s “ Flora 
Anglica,” ed. ii. (1778), in 2 vols. The MS. Notes are 
undated, but I have only noticed one reference to his estate 
at Diss ; Ripton near Huntingdon is a frequent habitat — 
Woodward had friends there. His own records for Yorkshire, 
Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland cover his trips of 
1781-2, and many references to Norfolk and Suffolk localities 
re-appear in “The Botanist’s Guide” (1805). Besides the 
Pitchford letter in Woodward’s book there are some M.S. 
Notes by Dr. Jonathan Stokes, dated Shrewsbury, June 19th, 
