92 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
drew up a list of his hothouse plants and printed it under the
title of Hortus Uptonensis.
It only remains now to indicate the subsequent history of
the Upton garden. From 1800 to 1812 it was occupied by James
Sheppard, who was followed by his son-in-law, Samuel Gurney,
till 1856. After Samuel Gurney's death his grandson, John
Gurney, sold the estate at the reduced price of £25,000 for the
purposes of a public park, his family generously contributing
£10,000 of this amount. The Corporation of London gave
£10,000 and the remaining £5,000 was raised by public sub-
scription, and it is now known as West Ham Park, having been
opened to the public in 1874.
I should like to have said something of the ravages of small-
pox and the introduction of inoculation, particularly in connec-
tion with Baron Thomas Dimsdale, grandson of Robert Dimsdale
of Theydon Garnon, who made the journey to Russia to inoculate
the Royal Family, and of the labours in Essex of Daniel and
Robert Sutton, but time will not permit.
Lord Lister.
I now come to one of the greatest benefactors to humanity
that medical science has produced, and an Essex man by birth.
As a County I am afraid that we have not been sufficiently proud
of this distinguished son, and I hope some of you here present
may be induced to read his life story, particularly that written
by his nephew, Sir Rickman John Godlee, and thus appreciate,
by a fuller understanding, the immense services he rendered to
the sick and suffering and the recognition of the, literally,
thousands of lives that have been preserved by the use of the
antiseptic methods of which he was the discoverer and perfecter.
Like Dr. Fothergill, Lord Lister was perhaps fortunate in being
bom into association and membership of that small body,
pre-eminent for good works, the Society of Friends. The rules
of life governing this body, their sober, righteous and godly lives,
their diligence in business, fervency of spirit and abounding
charity provided the very best pre-natal influences and shaped
as children the character which in man and womanhood com-
manded the respect of all with whom they had contact or
relationship.
Who shall measure the boundless influences of relationships,
ancestry and heredity! Lister came of a good wholesome