eL ANCASERE. 229 Vf EA aui AIl other improvements would of courſe A follow. of the: QLD HAM SOCIE TN. eulo- There is a ſociety of botaniſts in Oldham, eſtabliſhed te, by about twenty years ago, begun originally by Dr. Haulkyard, George Hyde, and John Newton.—The ſociety meets nine ay to months in the year, and each member contributes ſix pence 2 2e Of month,(the preſent members are all artificers) two pence of the| which 1s reſerved for the purchaſe of books, and the remaining nts, four pence ſpent in liquor.—They have purchaſed by this ved cans about twenty volumes, and are poſleſled of 1,500 ſpeci- 7 in mens of plants, properly clafied. and| The time by many dedicated to paſtime, or ſometimes to 1 the worſe purpoſes, is by the members of this ſociety uſually em- the ployed in the purſuit of their favourite amuſement of either ſe= leéing or arranging their ſpecimens. ded id In collecting plants different members have gone as far as ha: Liverpool, Lancaſter, Cheſter, Nottingham, Hull,&c. and one | tg( of the members has undertaken a voyage, and to proceed as (5 of| far as the weſtern parts of America, to botanize, under the pa- tino tronage of. John Lee Philips, eſquire, of Mancheſter.— f the/ On the 21ſt of June, in the preſent year, one of the members laroe: being upon the mountains near Oldham, diſcovered for the fûrſt i time the zva urfa. This ſociety 1s not unknown to Sir Joſeph Banks, Dr. Wi- Î thering, and others, from whom they have been favoured by d in- j correſpondence of letters.—They are a wonderful and re-

ſpectable ſociety for their perſeverance, ſobriety, and the great knowledge acguired in the purſuit of this ſtudy.

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molt Their great ambition is to viſit the botanical gardens at Lon- oder den; for which purpoſe the ſum of five guineas, they think,

would ſuffice: but alas! that ſum is not to be found*!

pe tioned, that upon Mr. Philips noticing to one of the members, that he had obſerved a certain rare plant whilít riding on the northern coaſt of Liver- pool, he immediately ſat out in ſearch of it, and brought it to Mr. Philips z; and the plant 1s now growing in his gardens at Mount-pleaſant.

* As a proof of the zeal of theſe indußtrious people, it may be men-

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