president’s address. 
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Festival, and was a member of the committee and auditor of 
the Norfolk and Norwich Horticultural Society when its first 
exhibition was held at the Swan Hotel (St. Peter’s) on 
November 25th, 1829.” 10 
Making an extended tour, the Kirbys put up at a public- 
house close to the sea in Lower Sheringham, and with Mr. 
Sutton explore the cliffs, finding Orobanche ccerulea and 
Medicago falcata }" 
In 1797 the Rev. William Kirby, making an entomological 
excursion with Mr. Thomas Marsham (first Secretary of the 
Linnean Society), visited his brother-in-law, Dr. Sutton, then 
living at 197, King street, Norwich. "July 12th, we breakfast 
and spend the morning with Dr. Smith and examine the 
Linnean Apes (Bees). The Smiths dine with us; in the 
evening we go to Thorpe by water. July 13, engage in a 
botanical expedition to Newton St. Faith’s ; our party con- 
sisted of Dr. Smith, Mr. Marsham, Mr. Pitchford, Mr. Foster, 
,: Mr. Weston, junr., Mr. Sutton, and myself. The plants we 
gathered were numerous, and many rare ; Polypodium 
Oreopteris, P. Filix mas, Osmunda spicant, Bryum glaucum, 
Satyrium viridc, Serapias palustris, Orchis conopsea, 
Carex vesicaria, C. limosa, C. hirta, Linum radiola, Peplis 
portula, Comarum palustre, Menyanthes trifoliata, Gentiana 
pneumonanthe, Alisma ranunculoides, Tilleea muscosa, etc. 
We return in the evening after having been consulted by 
the villagers as learned doctors.” 18 
In “ Makers of British Botany, ” Professor F. O. Bower 
says, “ It is the boys who are touched with the love of organic 
nature from their earliest years, who grub about hedgerows and 
roads, and by a sort of second sight appear to know instinc- 
tively, as personal friends, the things of the open country, who 
provide the material from which our little band of workers may 
best be recruited. Such a boy was Sir William Jackson 
*Mr. Charles Weslou, of Thorpe House, near Norwich, married Esther Anne, 
Sir James Smith’s youngest sister. « 
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