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THE ESSEX NATURALIST. 
the book to me for that purpose : and the present paper is the 
outcome of that suggestion. 
The book is an 8vo. volume, bound in quarter buff calf with 
marbled paper sides, and is interleaved with hand-made blank 
sheets throughout : the water mark of these blank sheets is a 
G.R. below a crowned device of fantastic design, and its date 
of manufacture is clearly prior to 1784. 
It was acquired by purchase by its present owner, who has 
methodically noted in the flyleaf: " Purchased by me this 
day of E. and J. Irvine for 2s. 6d. March 19th, 1874, B. D. 
Jackson.” 
The title page also bears the dated autograph signature, 
“ B. Daydon Jackson, 1874.” 
On the fly-leaf is the autograph of the original possessor 
“ Edward Forster, junr./ 
1784/” 
which implies that he, like his brother Benjamin (and probably, 
as Professor Boulger has shrewdly hinted, 8 like his other brother, 
Thomas Furly Forster), had his copy of “ Warner ” bound and 
interleaved for his own use, immediately upon the publication of 
Thomas’s Additions of that year, 1784. 
The volume contains the “ Index of the English Names,” 
the ” Errata ” (but not the “ Index of the Latin Names as given 
by Linnaeus ”) and also the Additions of 1784 due to T. F. 
Forster. The missing “ Index of the Latin Names ” has been 
supplied by the annotator himself, in manuscript, at the end of 
the book, not improbably from his brother Benjamin’s more 
perfect copy : at the same time he has added to the Index the 
plants enumerated in the Additions of 1784, those included 
in Warner’s MS. Additions in the copy of the Plantae in 
Wadham College Library, and also those added by himself 
in the annotations. 
In comparing the annotations contained in the present volume 
with those made by Benjamin Meggot Forster in his copy of the 
work, one is struck by the fact that the records made by Edward 
Forster cover a much greater extent of country than do those 
of his brother Benjamin, and go to prove the wider range of his 
observations as compared with his stay-at-home brother. Purely 
local Walthamstow records are fewer, while, notwithstanding the 
\ 4' Essex Natukalist, xix., p. 175. 
