president’s address. 
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1787. Dr. Stokes was coadjutor to Dr. Withering in the 
second edition of “ The Botanical Arrangement,” specially 
undertaking, as his share of the work, to verify and correct 
the references. 
T. J. Woodward died at Walcot Hall on January 28th, 1820. 
In April each year, Dr. and Mrs. Smith went to London for 
two months, so that he might deliver lectures in Town, and 
preside at the Annual Meeting of the Linnean Society in May. 
It is considered that he was wrong thus to leave the govern- 
ment of the Society during the remainder of the year to vice- 
presidents ; but London’s loss was a gain for Norwich. 
In 1799 Dr. Smith was President of Norwich Public Library. 
Keen to promote the intellectual welfare of those around 
him, he attempted to establish a botanical garden in Norwich, 
on the same lines as the one at Bury. He missed the scien- 
tifically-arranged gardens in the neighbourhood of London, and 
he especially missed the experimental part of Crowe’s garden at 
Lakenham. But the difficulty of selecting a plot of ground 
suitable for a botanical garden, the expense of its formation, 
and the still heavier cost of its cultivation upon scientific 
principles, entailed the necessity of a larger annual subscription 
than many were willing to incur. Though Sir James offered 
monetary help, as well as his assistance in laying out and 
furnishing the garden, and giving instructions for its manage- 
ment, the project had to be abandoned, much to his regret. 10 
When we, as members of the Norfolk and Norwich 
Naturalists’ Society, assemble at our headquarters, Norwich 
Castle Museum — a prison now converted into the centre of 
the intellectual life of the district — do we remember that the 
first President of the Norwich Museum was Sir James Edward 
Smith, of Norwich? 
On December the 2nd, 1824, at a special general meeting 
of the Norfolk and Norwich Literary Institution, which had 
been founded October 8th, 1822, a Special Committee was 
appointed to consider a proposed Museum. A room was hired 
in the building then occupied by the Literary Institution, in a 
court on the south side of the Haymarket, on the site of the 
