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The Presidential Address. 
Notley,” by Joshua Clarke and G. S. Gibson, October, 1843 ; 
p. 838, “ Supplement to the List of Saffron Walden Plants,” 
November, 1843, recording Crepis setosa ; p. 902, “Notice on 
a Carduus found near Saffron Walden,” January, 1843 [C. 
dubius , Willd.); p. 996, “ Note on the Primula elatior ,” May, 
1844, asserting its specific distinctness ; p. 1123, “Additional 
Plants found about Saffron Walden during the Summer of 
1844, with Remarks on some of the Species,” October, 1844, 
recording Galium vaillantii. To vol. ii. (1845-47), p. 473, 
“Botanical Notes for 1845,” containing records from York¬ 
shire and the Lake District; p. 676, “Notice of some 
Localities of Plants in Cornwall, &c., in the 8th Month, 
1846”; p. 269, ‘‘ Crepis setosa and Atriplex hortensis near 
Saffron Walden,” September, 1847. To vol. iii. (1848-50), 
p. 216, “ Notice of the Discovery of Filago jussicei near Saffron 
Walden,” July, 1848, now known as F. spathulata ; p. 308, 
“ Botanical Notes for 1848,” recounting visits to Box Hill, 
Bottisham and Burwell Fens, and Newmarket, August, 1848 ; 
p. 540, “ Mr. Newbould the discoverer of Melilotus arvensis ,” 
April, 1849 ; p. 707, “ Botanical Notes for 1849,” October, 
1849. And to vol. iv. (1851-53), p. 64, “Botanical Notes 
for 1851,” February, 1851, recording plants from Dunoon 
(printed Durroun), Argyleshire. In the ‘Botanical Gazette,’ 
vol. ii. (1850), is a letter from Mr. Gibson to Henfrey on 
Fumaria vaillantii. In ‘English Botany,’ Supplement, 2890, 
Arenaria uliginosa is stated to have been found in 1844 by a 
party of four, but the actual discoverer is believed to have 
been Mr. Gibson. Lastly, the finding of Potentilla norvegica, 
in Burwell Fen, Cambridgeshire, in 1868, was recorded in 
the ‘ Journal of Botany,’ vi. (1868), p. 302. 
In 1846 he communicated to Mr. Watson a list of West 
Cornish plants, which is incorporated in ‘ Topographical 
Botany,’ where also records are acknowledged from Mr. 
Gibson for North Essex, Cambridge, East and West Norfolk, 
Surrey, West Sussex, North and South Devon, Monmouth, 
Radnor, Cardigan, Merioneth, Denbigh, North and West 
Yorkshire, Durham, and Perth. 
As early as 1843, as we are told in the Preface, he “enter- 
