On the botany of the district lying between the Rivers Cray, Ravensbourne, and Thames.

  • Greenwich Natural History Club. Botanical Committee.
Date:
1858
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the botany of the district lying between the Rivers Cray, Ravensbourne, and Thames. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    PREFACE. The Greenwich Natural History Club was established in the year 1852, and has held meetings regularly since that time. Nothing, how- ever, has hitherto been done by the Club in the way of publication. In the spring of 1857 it was resolved, that information concerning the natural history of the District should be collected, with a view to publication, and a Botanical Committee was appointed for carrying out that resolution, so far as regarded Botany. The limits of the District were defined as follows :— By a line commencing at the point of junction of the Rivers Thames and Ravensbourne, following the course of the latter river to its source on Keston Common; thence in a straight line to the source of the River Cray, near Orpington; thence along the course of the Cray to its junction with the River Darent; thence along the course of the Darent to its junction with the Thames ; and thence up the Thames to the starting-point at the junction of the Thames and Ravensbourne. The following gentlemen were appointed members of the Botanical Committee :—Dr. Bossey, Mr. Cabell, Dr. Collingwood, Mr. Currey, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Marsden, Dr. Purvis, Mr. Spurrell, and Mr. Travis. Mr. Currey was elected Chairman. The Committee met from time to time during the summer of 1857 ; and, at the request of the other Members, the Chairman prepared the following Report, which was approved by the Committee, and afterwards presented to the Club, at their meeting at Greenwich on the 5th December, 1857.