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president’s address. 
happily observed by one of them, ‘ Surely no chemical affinity 
is stronger than that of congenial minds,’ and it required 
indeed the force of such an attraction to keep up as a 
relaxation from more arduous undertakings a correspondence 
which was in itself no inconsiderable one.” 87 
After Sir James Smith’s death, Lady Smith continued to 
reside at 29, Surrey street, for several years. She was 
succeeded in that house by my grandfather, Joseph Geldart, 
and to the many strange plants growing in that garden may be 
traced my father’s first interest in botany, as distinct from 
gardening. Lady Smith returned to live with her brother, 
Mr. James Reeve, at Lowestoft : and in 1849 she moved into 
a house which her father had built in the old town on the east 
side of the High street. It stands back a little from the road, 
with iron railings in front, and on the seaward side of the 
house there is a beautiful terraced garden sloping down to 
the Denes. At this house Lady Smith died on the 3rd of 
February, 1877, at the age of 103 years and eight months. 11 
We must now consider some of Sir James Smith’s friends in 
West Norfolk, and at Yarmouth. 
For more than one hundred years (1723-1825) the valuable 
living of Fincham was in the hands of the For by family. The 
Rev. Joseph Forby was presented to the living by his father, 
Mr. Thomas Forby, in 1723. He died in 1744, and was 
succeeded by William Harvey, who married his widow, Martha 
Forby, and died in 1787. The next incumbent was Joseph, 
son of the aforesaid Joseph Forby ; he married Constance 
Harvey, and died without issue on April 25th, 1799, aged 65 
years. 19 He was the discoverer of Salix Forbyana, a fine 
basket osier, which was so named by Dr. Smith to commemorate 
Joseph as well as Robert Forby. 1 ’ Mr. A. Young states that 
Mr. (Joseph) Forby knew well the value of osier plantations 
for various purposes. “ Osiers planted in small spots, and 
along some of his hedges, furnished him with hurdle-stuff 
enough to make many dozens every year, so that he supplied 
himself entirely with that article, as well as with a profusion of 
all sorts of baskets, especially one kind that he used for moving 
