1805.]. Difcovery of Draba Aizvides.—Archdeacon Blackburne. 
mentioned has obferved, that the words it, 
that, «which, as, fo, were originally fyno- 
nimous, and that your Correfpondent, in 
his examination of the expreffion, ‘ as 
becometh woman,”’ needs not either con- 
fider it as elliptical, or look beyond the 
claufe itfelf for a nominative to the verb. 
Iam, Sir, your’s, &c. 
Southampton-row, PHILOLOGOS. 
&C. 15, 1804. 
EE 
Io the Editor of the Monthly 
SIR, 
N page 1338 of that highly claffical 
JL work, “* Englifh Botany,’ I obtf:rve 
the Editor pays proper attention to the 
claim of Mr. Lucas as the difcoverer 
of Draba Aizoides. But that I may not 
appear to have decked myfelf inthe plum- 
age of another, or exhibited pretenfions not 
my own, allow me to point out to bim 
what I know of this beautiful Alpine 
plant. 
In the fummer of the year 1802, I 
found it in a ramble among thofe roman- 
tic-and almoft inacceffible rocks about 
Pennard Caftle, and afterwards mention- 
ed to Mr. Dillwyn the probability of my 
being able to add it to the catalogue of 
our native plants. In the March follow- 
ing I produced fpecimens to Mr. Dillwyn, 
and we together collected thofe which I 
tranfmitted to London. I had, during 
the fame fpring, the pleafure of accompa- 
nying Mr. Woods and Mr. George Sow- 
erby, and pointing out its native babi- 
tat, together with that of Lepidium Pe- 
traeum, Scilla Verna, and {ome other ra- 
rities. 
The fine feat at Stout Hal] I had, for 
fome years paft, been in the habit of oc- 
cafionally vifiting: but in all my eager 
inquiries after the natural produftions of 
the country, I never from him or from 
any of his friends heard a hint about the 
Draba Azoides. Mr. Lucas I found to be 
a tally and fuccefsful cultivator of hand- 
fome fhrubs, but. difclaiming all know- 
ledge of {cientific botany. “The Editor’s 
correfpondence with Mr. Lucas, I con- 
clade, began and ended with this claim. 
A dilcoverer I had conceived to be he, 
who firlt afcertained the individual betore 
him, reduced it toits proper place ina fyf 
tem, and produced it to be recorded 
among the treafures of his country. . But 
if he be a difcoverer, who, without the 
remoteft knowledge of the diftindtive dif- 
ference between one plant and another, 
gathers it merely for the purpole of 
adorming his flower-pot or his bexquer, 
Magazines 
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5 
Mr. Lucas may fhare this honour in com- 
mon with the fhepherds of the moun- 
tains. 
WiLLiamM TuRTON. 
Swanfea, Dec. 26, 1804. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Writer in your Obituary has faid, 
that the Memoirs of the patriotic 
and munificent Thomas Hollis, Efq. were 
publifhed by-his heir and executor, Mr, 
Brand Hollis, lately deceafed. 
You will allow me to remark, that the 
collection of materials, and the manage- 
ment as well as the expences of the pubiz. 
cation, formed Mr. Brand Hollis’s thare. 
in that magnificent work ; while the la- 
~borious tafk of arrangement and compof. 
tion fell principally, if not entirely, to the 
‘Jot of the late Mr. Archdeacon Black. - 
burne. 
Of this faé& the writer in your Obituary 
may ealily be fatisfied, by referring to Mr. 
Blackburne’s own Account of his Life 
and Writings (p. Liil.), prefixed to the 
late Collection ‘of his Works, in feven 
volumes o€étavo. 
At the fame time ailow me, by infert- 
ing it in your Magazine, to preferve a 
curious anecdote cf the worthy Archdea- 
con’s fecond nature, his invincible attach- 
ment to the ufe of pen, ink, paper, and 
books, as well as the ftrong and decifive 
manner in which he was generally ac- 
cuftomed to exprefs himfelf. 
When fome years paft the age of 
feventy, and when ke was bufily employed 
in the compilation of the Hollifian Me- 
moirs, he concludeda fhort note to a friend 
of mine, in thefe words :—‘ I have got 
a moft troublefome inflammation in my 
right eye, which makes me write in pain. 
Mr. W. [the medical gentleman who at- 
tended him]. faid this morning, I muft 
neither write nor read : he might as well 
fay, I mult not goto ftool.”’ 
: ST. MA, 
January 2, 1805. 
a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
_ SIR, 
HE extenfive utility of leeches is 
well known. If any of your nu- 
merous correfpondents would inform me, 
through the medium of your valuable 
Magazine, at what period they were firft 
brought into ufe, it would confer a fa- 
vour upon your humble fervant, and .con- 
ftant reader, . A. H. 
London, Nov. 10th, 1804. y 
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