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HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE HERBARIUM. 
Samuel Hailstone was born at Hoxton, London, in 1767. A 
few years afterwards his father, John Hailstone, came to reside in 
York, and subsequently Mr. Samuel Hailstone was articled with 
Mr. John Hardy, Solicitor of Bradford. 
To Samuel Hailstone and his son, the Yorkshire Philosophical 
Society is indebted for the splendid collection of British flowering 
plants, which was presented to the Society in 1859, in addition to 
the manuscript catalogue of this herbarium in 1887, and many 
rare books on Botany. 
Mr. Hailstone was an eminent lawyer, and for many years was 
the legal adviser of the Low Moor Iron Company, and clerk to 
the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company, in which he was greatly 
interested. 
During the construction of this important canal he collected 
many botanical specimens, which will be enumerated later on. 
During the years 1790-1830 he was intimately connected with 
the Telfords and Backhouses, of York and Darlington, proprietors 
of the well-known nurseries. 
For many years Mr. Hailstone resided at Horton Hall, Bradford, 
Yorks., and in the gardens attached to the mansion he cultivated 
many British plants in which he was especially interested, and he 
built a greenhouse for the pursuit of his botanical studies. 
Mr. Hailstone was elected F.L.S. in 1801, and in the appendix 
to Dr. Whitaker’s “ History of Craven,” 1812, he published an 
account of the Flora of that interesting district. 
During the latter portion of his life, he frequently made botanical 
excursions in the neighbourhood of Bottisham, Camb., the residence 
of his son, the Rev. John Hailstone, who was the vicar of Bottis¬ 
ham for thirty years. 
The numerous specimens of Mr. Hailstone’s collecting during 
the years 1840-45, show that the latter portion of his life was spent 
in studying the Flora of Boston Spa and Thorpe Arch. 
He died at Horton Hall, Bradford, on the 26th Dec., 1851, and 
was buried at Boston Spa Church, Thorpe Arch, Yorks., aged 84. 
He left two sons, the Rev. John Hailstone, already alluded to, and 
Edward Hailstone, Esq., a celebrated antiquarian, and author of 
“ Yorkshire Worthies,” of Horton Hall, Bradford, and Walton 
Hall, Wakefield. The last-named mansion was formerly the 
residence of Charles Waterton, the renowned naturalist. 
The contributors to the Hailstone collection of British plants, 
include many of the names already referred to in the Dalton 
