194 THE ESSEX NATURALIST
Lister, Joseph, Lord; b. Upton, Essex, 1827; d. London, 1912.
The famous surgeon and founder of aseptic methods in medicine. These
collections bear Curator's notes which are repeated here, in part. These
plants were presented by Miss Gulielma Lister at intervals during a period
of about ten years commencing in 1925. They are mounted on Kew size
sheets and arranged in sets according to geographical areas :—
1. British plants, in one set, chiefly Scottish, 06 sheets.
2. Plants from Alpine Switzerland, N. Italy, Austria and Alpine France
in a combined "alpine" set, e. 500 sheets.
3. Plants from France (excluding alpine France), 46 sheets collected at
Auvergne in 1885 and Aix-les-Bains in 1898.
4. Plants from Italy (excluding alpine Italy), 66 sheets collected in
Sicily in 1885 and in Ancona, Ravenna and Rimini in 1889.
5. Plants from Germany, 16 sheets collected at Wiesbaden in spring,
1892.
6. Plants from Norway, 36 sheets collected in autumn, 1894.
7. Plants from Spain and Portugal, c. 200 sheets collected between
1882 and 1889.
8. Plants from the West Indies, comprising 16 sheets collected in April,
1886, flowering plants and 64 sheets of Pteridophyta collected in
Jamaica in April, 1886 by Lord Lister and Miss G. Lister and
including those collected by Dr. Band and Mr. Boy and presented
on the same expedition to Lord Lister.
Herbarium of 254 specimens on 238 sheets of plants made by Joseph
afterwards Lord Lister between 1844 and 1848 while living: it Upton
Essex. Some of these plants were collected by William Henry Lister,
brother of Joseph Lister. On one sheet appears a note that the plant was
collected by "my sister Mary", who was later Mrs. Rickman Godlee and
mother of Sir Rickman John Godlee. Added to the foregoing collection
is one sheet of Melilotus altissima Thuill, presented by Miss G. Lister
in July, 1933. The majority of the plants in this collection were
obtained in the vicinity of Upton, but others were from much further
afield. E.N., 21, 104, 1925.
Lister, Mary (afterwards Mrs. Rickman Godlee), sister of Lord Lister.
Collection of 7 sheets including three sheets of Essex plants. Presented
to the Club by Miss G. Lister, 10th July, 1942.
Lister, William Henry, brother of Lord Lister.
Collection of 82 sheets of Essex plants collected in the Upton, Essex
and adjacent district between 1844 and 1848.
Collection of 87 sheets of plants other than Essex species. This
collection was made between 1845 and 1846 chiefly in Kent (Romney
Marsh, Folkestone, and Shooter's Hill) and Surrey (Dorking).
Marriott, St. John; b. Sandbach, Cheshire, 1 September, 1870; d.
London, 7 October, 1927. Contributor of some "Notes on the Bryophyta
of Essex" in the handbook issued in connection with the South Eastern
Union's Meeting at Chelmsford in 1926.
Collection of 52 species of Hepatics to represent all available records
of Hepatics for Essex. Thirteen of these do not appear to have been
re-discovered in the County since the time of Edward Forster or Dr. E. G.