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HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE HERBARIUM. 
Christopher Machell was born in 1747. He was Lt.-Colonel 
in the 15th Regiment of Foot, and served with the British Forces 
under General Gage in the American War of Independence. On 
the 17th June, 1775, he was present at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, 
and in that fiercely contested and sanguinary engagement the 
gallant Colonel lost an arm. 
He came to reside at Beverley about 1789 or 1790, and his 
leisure time was devoted to the study of botany, and other branches 
of natural history. As a natural result of these studies he culti¬ 
vated the acquaintance of men whose tastes were in sympathy 
with his own, and of this class Robert Teesdale was one. 
Col. Machell was a man of splendid physique, and at Cracken- 
thorpe, Westmorland (the family seat of the Machell's), there is a 
portrait of him which exhibits the gallant colonel seated, and 
resting his arm upon a volume of his “ Hortus Siccus.” He died 
at Beverley, Yorkshire, on the 24th September, 1827. 
The Society is indebted to the late Richard Beverley Machell, 
M.A., Canon of York, for the above information regarding his 
grandfather. Canon Machell took a great interest in the welfare 
of the Yorkshire Philsophical Societ}^ and carefully examined the 
specimens in the herbarium from the East Riding of Yorkshire. 
Dr. Samuel Goodenough was the first treasurer of the 
Linnaean Society (1788), and a friend and correspondent of the 
Rev. James Dalton. He was a frequent contributor to botanical 
literature, and the abbreviated name (Good) is still retained as the 
author of many of the names of the species in the genus Cavex in 
the British flora. 
Dr. Goodenough was made Bishop of Carlisle in 1808, and died 
August 12th, 1827, and was buried at Westminster Abbey. 
It may be interesting to insert the following extract from a letter 
dated May 10th, 1894, which Lt.-Colonel Dalton, R.A., addressed 
to your honorary curator :— 
“ Another curious coincidence is that Bishop Goodenough and 
the Rev. James Dalton were great friends, as are the two grand¬ 
sons, the present Lt.-Gen. Goodenough, C.B., of the Royal 
Artillery, and myself, we having been recently associated in bring¬ 
ing out a book, “ The Army Book for the British Empire,” in 
which the names of Goodenough and Dalton are once more 
associated after the lapse of a generation.” 
The frequent occurrence of the name “ Hooker ” amongst the 
botanical specimens in the Dalton collection, is indicative of the 
