WARNER'S “ PLANTA) WOODFORDIENSES.”’ 275 
this may well have been done by Gibson when referring to the 
notes in preparing his “ Flora.” 
Gibson probably presented this copy of the ‘‘ Plantee Wood- 
fordienses ”’ to the Saffron Walden library, as one of the many 
scientific volumes which he donated to that Library: it is un- 
fortunate that, as laminformed by Mr. A. E. Gower, the librarian, 
no record of the provenance of this particular volume exists 
to confirm this. 
This third annotated copy of Warner’s Woodford Flora, 
though of less value as regards its records, whether considered 
from a botanical or from a topographical point of view, than 
ate the two previously described copies, is yet of interest in that 
it confirms the late Professor Boulger’s shrewd suspicion that 
each of the three brothers Forster possessed his own interleaved 
copy of the “ Plante ”’ in which he was accustomed to enter 
his own new finds. It may be useful here to record the present 
disposition of each of the three copies, viz. :— 
1. Thomas Furly Forster’s copy, in the Library of the 
Literary and Scientific Institution at Saffron Walden ; 
2. Benjamin Meggot Forster’s copy, hitherto belonging to 
our member, Mr. J. J. Holdsworth, but now in the Club’s 
possession, it having most kindly been presented to the 
Library by Mr. Holdsworth ; and 
3. Edward Forster’s copy, in the possession of our honorary 
member, Dr. B. Daydon Jackson. 
Gibson remarks that T. F. Forster “‘ does not appear to have 
‘paid any special attention to the botany of Essex.” Certainly, 
after publication of his ‘“‘ Additions to Warner’s Plante Wood- 
fordienses ’’ in 1784, it would seem that he transferred his atten- 
tion elsewhere. In 1788 he married, and afterwards went to 
live in Clapton, not returning to Walthamstow as a resident until 
1823, two years before his death. His business affairs in the 
City were probably exigent in their demands upon his time. 
He was partner with his father in the firm of Edward Forster 
and Son, merchants, of 38, Threadneedle Street (afterwards 
of 6, Saint Helen’s Place), and he followed in his father’s foot- 
steps by becoming, by 1804 or earlier,3 a member of the Court 
-of Assistants of the Russia Company, and, by 1813,4 a director 
3 Kent’s Directory, 1804, ibid., 1808. 
4 Post Office Annual Directory, 1813, ibid., 1817. 
