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With notes by Edleston in the margins and a record of the votes for and against on the last page.

Returned to England

By Lyon Barnes & Ellis. Endorsement requiring the document to be ingrossed in duplicate on 8 Feb. 1860.

‘Empiricus | Virgil | Pictorius | Lanquet Cooper 1565 | Logeman. Faustus Notes | Solinus | Tzetzes’.

London - route of a trip to Germany, his marriage, Ward's motion on Commonwealth land

(Probably printed about 1875, the date of the events related in it.)

If WW gets 'any safe opportunity to London' JDF would like his thermometer left with Henslow [John Henslow] at the Royal Society.

Grendon House, (Northants.).—Has found the plant known in his neighbourhood as ‘clench’ in Anne Pratt’s Wild Flowers, where it is called the corn crowfoot. Discusses its character.

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Grendon House
Tuesday Evening

My dear Sir,

After a good search this evening I have found in the 1st volume of Wild Flowers by Anne Pratt {1}, what in this neighbourhood we call Clench, or Corn Crowfoot as it is described here, it is quite different to the Creeping Crowfoot which you often see land almost as it were tied together with when badly farmed, this roots very near the surface & is easily hoed up when young, it grows about a foot high & bears a small yellow flower about half the size of the Buttercup, but its most striking feature & one which you cannot mistake it by are its very large & prickly seed-vessels which succeed the flower, & which if allowed to ripen and shed in the land takes some years to get rid of, Lime just fresh from the kiln liberally applied is the best and cheapest remedy when land gets infested with it,

Believe me | yrs faithfully
J. L. Wright

W. Aldis Wright Esqre

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The information in this letter was embodied in the following note by Aldis Wright printed in Notes and Queries on 12 Nov. 1887 (p. 387):

‘CLENCH.—A few weeks since I found this word in use at Grendon, Northamptonshire, to describe a common weed which is the especial enemy of the farmer. It is not mentioned in Miss Baker’s “Northamptonshire Glossary,” or in Britten and Holland’s “English Plant Names,” pub-lished by the English Dialect Society; but the kindness of a friend has enabled me to identify it with the corn crowfoot (Ranunculus arvensis of Linnæus), which is known by many opprobrious names.’

{1} First published by SPCK in two volumes, 1852-3, and frequently reprinted.

Title inscribed on first page. Used from the front for notes September 1943 - October 1944, paginated 1-126, and from the back for notes c December 1943 - 1 January 1945, including work on penicillin 1944, paginated with Synge's own system. A little loose intercalated material.

Accompanied by two lists of materials present and absent by Isaac Todhunter.

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