30 EAELY DAYS 
Even in later life the delivery of an address meant a strain 
which brought on physical nausea and severe nervous reaction. 
As he grew up, he went far afield on his botanical expedi- 
tions. On September 2, 1836, Sir Wilham, sending a belated 
acceptance of an invitation for Joseph to visit his grandfather, 
writes : ' I only returned from a Highland tour with Dr. Graham, 
Mr. Wilson ^ and Joseph last Saturday. The latter had been 
away some weeks with Mr. Wilson amongst the Aberdeenshire 
mountains, and I could not communicate with him but by 
ferreting him out in person, which I did, and found him and 
Wilson at the old hovel at the foot of Ben Lomond, where they 
were nearly a week.' 
On his way to Yarmouth, he stays at Liverpool with Mr. 
Melty, a collector of beetles, among w^hose specimens he sees the 
GoHathi, which he afterwards collected himself in India ; and 
at Manchester with Mr. Glover,^ possessor of a less valuable 
collection ; at each city visiting the Museum and Botanical 
Gardens. The Manchester Gardens are ' the finest I ever saw ; 
finer, I think, than Edinburgh, though not, certainly, so good 
a collection of plants.' 
Then at Hull he stays with WiUiam Spence, joint author 
with Wilham Kirby (a Norwich man) of the famous ' Litroduc- 
tion to Entomology,' examining his rich collection and twice 
going out entomologising wdth him. 
At Yarmouth he works keenly in his grandfather's and 
Miss Hutchins' herbaria ; and as a result asks his father to 
re-examine his own specimens of a certain moss {Bryum 
triquetrum) in order to correct what he feels sure is a wrong 
ascription of a specimen of his grandfather's. So, too, the latter 
has just received five specimens of the narrow-leaved lungwort 
^ William Wilson (1799-1871) was a botanist who had been attracted to 
the study during the open-air life necessitated by an early breakdown from 
overwork. In 1827 he Mas introduced by Henslow to Sir W. Hooker, and 
joined him in his annual students' botanical excursion. Through Hooker he 
devoted himself to the mosses, and described the mosses collected on Ross's 
Voyage. His great work, the Bryologia Britannica (1855), though intended 
to be a third edition of W, J. Hooker's MtLscologia, was substantial!}- a new 
work of the highest merit. Among the new species added to the British 
Flora bj^ Wilson, his name is preserved in the rose named after him by Borrer, 
and the Killamey filmy fern {HymenopJn/lhnn Wihoni) by Sir W. Hooker. 
2 Perhaps Stephen Glover {d. 18G9), known for his Peak Guide, 1830, and 
History of the County of Derby, 1831-3. 
