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The Presidential Address.
Notley," by Joshua Clarke and G. S. Gibson, October, 1843 ;
p. 838, "Supplement to the List of Saffron Walden Plants,"
November, 1843, recording Crepis setosa; p. 902, "Notice on
a Carduus found near Saffron Walden," January, 1843 (C.
dubius, Willd.); p. 996, "Note on the Primula elatior," May,
1844, asserting its specific distinctness ; p. 1123, "Additional
Plants found about Saffron Walden during the Summer of
1844, with Remarks on some of the Species," October, 1844,
recording Galium vaillantii. To vol. ii. (1845-47), p. 473,
"Botanical Notes for 1845," containing records from York-
shire and the Lake District; p. 676, "Notice of some
Localities of Plants in Cornwall, &c, in the 8th Month,
1846"; p. 269, "Crepis setosa and Atriplex hortensis near
Saffron Walden," September, 1847. To vol. iii. (1848-50),
p. 216, "Notice of the Discovery of Filago jussiaei near Saffron
Walden," July, 1848, now known as F. spathulata; p. 308,
"Botanical Notes for 1848," recounting visits to Box Hill,
Bottisham and Burwell Fens, and Newmarket, August, 1848;
p. 540, "Mr. Newbould the discoverer of Melilotus arvensis,"
April, 1849; p. 707, "Botanical Notes for 1849," October,
1849. And to vol. iv. (1851-53), p. 64, "Botanical Notes
for 1851," February, 1851, recording plants from Dunoon
(printed Durroun), Argyleshire. In the 'Botanical Gazette,'
vol. ii. (1850), is a letter from Mr. Gibson to Henfrey on
Fumaria vaillantii. In 'English Botany,' Supplement, 2890,
Armaria uliginosa is stated to have been found in 1844 by a
party of four, but the actual discoverer is believed to have
been Mr. Gibson. Lastly, the finding of Potentilla norvegica,
in Burwell Fen, Cambridgeshire, in 1868, was recorded in
the 'Journal of Botany,' vi. (1868), p. 302.
In 1846 he communicated to Mr. Watson a list of West
Cornish plants, which is incorporated in 'Topographical
Botany,' where also records are acknowledged from Mr.
Gibson for North Essex, Cambridge, East and West Norfolk,
Surrey, West Sussex, North and South Devon, Monmouth,
Radnor, Cardigan, Merioneth, Denbigh, North and West
Yorkshire, Durham, and Perth.
As early as 1843, as we are told in the Preface, he "enter-