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have often completely altered the nature and aspect of the 
country, and, in consequence, the productions, both animal 
and vegetable. In parts of the North of Scotland, another 
cause—that great rage and fashion for “ sporting,” as it is 
termed, has influenced the distribution of the higher orders; 
the wild animals and birds have been reduced in numbers as 
‘ vermin,’ sometimes almost extirpated, and many will in a few 
years stand side by side in history with the bear and the wolf. 
It will be to these clubs that we shall be indebted for a record 
of what in their days did exist; and in the still untouched 
mountains and valleys we may have the discovery of insects 
and plants not known to our geographic range; and when the 
country shall have been mapped on the large scale by the 
Government surveyors, there is nothing that should prevent 
an active club to fill up in a few years a list of the productions 
within their beat, and so lead on to a complete and accurate 
Fauna and Flora of our own time and age ; and generations 
succeeding would be able not only to mark the changes of the 
productions, but to judge and reason upon the effects which 
these now so-called improvements have produced on the 
climate and soil, and the fertility and increase of the latter. 
These clubs have yet to write the Natural History of Great 
Britain.” 
As this Jubilee Year seems to be full of germs of good 
intent, and the promise of spontaneous growth of all sorts of 
possible and impossible schemes, let us hope that it may 
contain one that will germinate and ultimately develop into 
a goodly edifice, to be the holder of a representative collection 
of the Natural History products of our district. I have 
little fear that, if only a small beginning were made, with 
continued efforts, our labours would eventually be crowned 
with success. 
(To be continued.) 
HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
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BY WM. MATHEWS, M. A. 
(Continued from page 92.) 
Second Period, 1751 to 1800. 
The history of this Period commences with the celebrated 
“ Flora Anglica ” of William Hudson, the first English Flora 
on the Linnaean system. Hudson was born at Kendal in 1730, 
and practised as an Apothecary in London, where he died in 
