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HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE HERBARIUM. 
Ibbotson, of Ganthorpe, principally with a view of exploring 
Whitsoncliffe, on the western edge of the Oolitic Hills, and the 
Hole of Horcum on the high moors between Pickering and Whitby, 
1841.” 
In 1848, Mr. Ibbotson published a catalogue of the Phceno- 
gamous plants of Britain, with a copious list of synonyms, which 
met with a large circulation, and on the occasion of Her Majesty’s 
visit to Castle Howard, Yorkshire, August, 1850, he published a 
most interesting description of the natural and pictorial features 
of Castle How r ard and neighbourhood. His last work was on the 
“ Ferns of York, &c., in which he was assisted by Messrs. B. B. 
Le Tall and A. R. Waller. 
Whilst Richard Spruce was toiling on the Amazons and Andes, 
Henry Ibbotson was sinking in his social position, and the 
precarious mode of his existence compelled him to associate with 
all sorts of itinerant characters. 
The following letter indicates Mr. Ibbotson's position in 1882:— 
“ 2, Grape Lane, 
“ Sunday, September, 1882. 
“.When I got home I had not a penny to pay lodgings with. 
I got credit first, however, under a promise of paying it to-day, so that to save 
unpleasantness I must fulfil that promise, and that will take Sd. to do it. Being 
Sunday I have no access to any other place where I could get it to-day, or 
depend upon it, I would never have thought, after all the obligations I have 
been under to you, of troubling you. To-morrow I can go and fetch Digitalis 
for Bleasdales, and that will afford me temporary relief, but I have the interval 
to get over between this and to-morrow night, if even my old boots will carry me 
over the distance/’ 
The v T riter of these notes recalls with pleasure the many rambles 
he had with Mr. Ibbotson in Teesdale, Castle Howard, and else¬ 
where ; and although Mr. Ibbotson’s position was a little brighter 
in 1883-4, the trying conditions of his life had told heavily on his 
grand constitution, and he died after a short illness on the 12th 
February, 1886. 
Henry Baines was born on the 15th May, 1793, in a cottage 
over the cloisters of St. Leonard's Hospital, York. The cloisters 
at that time were occupied by Mr. Suttle, a wine merchant, and 
used by him for the storage of wines, &c. 
At the age of 12, Henry Baines commenced gardening operations 
on the site now occupied by the fountain and pond near to St. 
Leonard's Hospital. 
