PRESIDENT’S address. 
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was very cordial, but he is restless and soon loses recollection. 
Mrs. and Miss Aikin and Mrs. Barbauld I found all very well.” 
In 1818 we are told that “the Norwich people mostly 
frequent Yarmouth, which is a gay, lively place — the Margate 
of Norfolk.” 3 ' One of the glories of Yarmouth was its quay, 
which at that time had the credit of being, w r ith one exception, 
the longest and handsomest in Europe. On the Quay, at the 
Bank House, facing the river, resided Dawson Turner ; and 
in a large house at the seaward end of the Quay was born 
James Paget, the centenary of whose birth we have just been 
celebrating, for he was an Honorary Member of the Norfolk 
and Norwich Naturalists’ Society. 
The Bank House became a renowned centre and meeting- 
place for the leaders of scientific and artistic life in England. 
Here probably James Smith met Lilly Wigg' for the first 
time, in 1793. On July 20th, he writes to T. J. Woodward : — - 
“We have been at Yarmouth, and I have seen the Puritanic 
brown locks of Mr. Lilly Wigg, which so much belie his name. 
I am, however, not the less satisfied with himself.” Wood- 
ward replies three days later: “ I am glad you saw Turner at 
Yarmouth. He is a very clever young man, and will make an 
excellent botanist. Wigg’s locks certainly do not partake of 
the Lilly, nor do they give him a very promising appearance, 
but the exterior is not always the interior, and he has great 
knowledge and indefatigable industry under that uncouth 
appearance and harsh address.” 7 In the possession of the 
Linnean Society is a water-colour sketch, painted by C. J. 
Paget in 1828, which represents Lilly Wigg a white-haired 
old man with wrinkled forehead and prominent lower lip ; he 
is dressed in brown coat and knee-breeches with grey stockings. 
The date of Lilly Wigg’s death is usually quoted as 28th 
March, 1828 ; but some authors give 29th March, 1828, and 
others mention 29th March, 1829. Mr. John Quinton points 
out that in the obituary notice of L. Wigg in the “ Gentleman’s 
*The Kector of Smallburgh (the Rev. J R. Milne) informs me that the register 
of that church records the marriage of John Wigg and Sarah Lilly in December, 
1748. Their son Lilly Wigg was born on Christmas Day, 1749, but there is no record 
of nis baptism at the church. In later life he was a .baptist ; perhaps his parents 
also belonged to that sect. 
