222 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,3 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
3 The Essex Naturalist, xix., p. 175.