246 THE ESSEX NATURALIST. 
Woodfordtenses ), thanking him especially for his care of the 
testator’s health, he being obviously his medical attendant. 
As to these bequests it may be noted that the book plate 
alluded to bears the arms before described with the crescent as 
difference for a second son, a horse’s head ermine to dexter as 
crest, on an esquire’s helmet to dexter, and the owner’s name : 
that the Wadham endowment now consists of £343 : 5 : 7 Consols, 
Fic. 1—RICHARD WARNER’S BOOKPLATE, 
producing {10 : 5 : 11 annually, which, Mr. Thorley informs me, 
is by a statute of the late University Commissioners merged 
in a general Exhibition Fund : and that Nichols was misinformed 
when he wrote (loc. cit.), ‘‘ If I am not misinformed, he left to 
the same Society a small annual stipend to maintain a botanical 
lecture.” 
Among the books at Wadham College are two volumes labelled 
Hortus stccus, but their contents are meagre, unnamed and 
