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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
Woodfordienses), 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,
Fig. 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 siccus, but their contents are meagre, unnamed and