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published a work entitled “ Animal Biography, or anecdotes of 
the lives, manners and economy of the animal creation.” 
He died March nth, 1823, aged 49. 
Amongst the names of the contributors to Mr. Dalton’s collec¬ 
tion during the years 1785 to 1835, a cursory allusion must only 
be made to the following :— 
Lewis Weston Dillwyn, of Ipswich, F.L.S., 1800, author of 
“ British Confervae,” 1802-07. 
Dawson Turner, of Yarmouth, author of “ British Fuci,” 1802 ; 
discoverer in Britain of Mathiola iucana , 1806, a specimen of 
which is in the herbarium. 
Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, who contributed to the her¬ 
barium Nuphav intermedium, Ledeb., from Wallington moors, 
Northumberland. 
George Don, publisher of “ Herbarium Britannicum,” 1804-6. 
Sir Thomas Gage, Suffolk, a well-known Lichenologist. 
Rev. John Harriman, of Maryport, Cumberland, F.L.S. 1798, an 
ardent botanist, who died at Croft, Yorkshire, Dec. 3rd, 1831. 
Rev. John Stevens Henslow, of Rochester, F.L.S. 1818, F.G.S. 
1819; Professor of Botany (Cambridge), 1825. 
Rev. John Holme, of Cambridge, F.L.S. 1800. 
Rev. Richard Relhan, F.L.S. 1788, author of “ Flora Cantab,” 
many of whose specimens are in Mr. Dalton’s collection. 
Stephen Robson, author of (Robson’s) “ British Flora," which 
was published in York, 1777. 
A copy of this flora is in the library (York Museum), and many 
of his botanical specimens are in the herbarium. 
The herbarium and correspondence of Stephen Robson is in the 
possession of Miss Robson, Sunderland, to whom the writer 
of these notes is indebted for much invaluable information 
regarding the contributions of “ Robson ” in the Dalton 
collection. 
Jonathan Salt, of Sheffield, F.L.S. 1797, whose herbarium is in 
the Sheffield Museum. 
William Sole, author of Mentha Britannica (1798), a copy of 
which is in the library of the Society. 
Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, of Suffolk, and 
Sir James Edward Smith, founder of the Linnaean Society, 1788, 
and of which he was President, 1788 to 1828. 
